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Subject Guide: Computer Science

Web Sites

Many useful information resources are available on the Internet. But, remember to evaluate any Web site before using it for research.

Associations

Association for Computing Machinery
     
http://www.acm.org/
Founded in 1947, ACM has played a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide. Their website has information on membership, scholarships, ordering publications, etc.
Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
     
http://www.first.org/
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), brings together a variety of computer security incident response teams from government, commercial, and academic organizations.
IEEE Computer Society
     
http://www.computer.org
The IEEE Computer Society is one of the world's leading organizations of computer professionals. Their website has information on membership, scholarships, ordering publications, etc.
National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and
Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
     
http://www.cise.nsf.gov
CISE promotes research and education in the fields of computer and information science and engineering, and strives to maintain U.S. preeminence in these fields.
Scholarly Societies Project - Computer Science
     
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/compsci_soc.html
Provides access to websites of international scholarly societies. Website is maintained by the University of Waterloo Library.
World Wide Web Consortium
    
http://www.w3.org
World Wide Web Consortium is an industry consortium for the purpose of developing common protocols and standards for the World Wide Web.

Directories & Databases

Center for Research on Parallel Computation
     
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/
The Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC) is one of the National Science Foundation's 25 Science and Technology Centers. The CRPC was created in 1989 and is a nation-wide consortium of more than 400 researchers, support staff, and graduate students at seven core university and laboratories in the U.S.
InfoMineScholarly Internet Resource Collections
     
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=physci
A cooperative effort created by librarians from several universities such as University of California, Wake Forest University and California State University. INFOMINE contains hundreds of journal articles (selected full-text), electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, etc.
CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library
     
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
EEVL
     http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
Searchable database of web resources in engineering, mathematics and computing. Part of the U.K. Resource Discovery Network.
Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
     
http://www.science.gov
Science.gov was developed by an interagency working group of 16 scientific and technical information organizations from 11 major science agencies. Two major types of information are included: selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, etc.
Scirus
     
http://www.scirus.com/
Scirus is one of the most comprehensive science-specific free online search engines. It contains over 17 million records from sources, some are free and full-text, from sources such as ScienceDirect, NASA, The Computer Science Preprint Server, CogPrints, E-Print ArXiv, etc.
WWW Computer Architecture Home Page
     
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www
Website is a portal to links for conferences, on-line publications, books, awards, etc. in the computer science industry. Created by the Computer Architecture Group Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WWW Virtual Library - Computing
     
http://www.vlib.org/Computinghtml
The Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalog on the World Wide Web. The VL was created by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web. The VL is not the biggest directory on the web but its pages are recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular subject areas.

Programming Languages

The Source for Java(TM) Technology
    
 http://java.sun.com
Sun's Java Programming Language is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems to solve a number of problems in modern programming practice and to provide a programming language for the Internet.

Reports & Bibliographies

Bibliographies of Technical Reports of Computer Science Departments
     http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/mirrors/bibliography/Techreports/
This website is located at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany. It contains abstracts and URLs to over 1 million journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
     http://liinwwwira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html
This website is located at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany. It contains abstracts and URLs to over 1 million journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports.
CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences E-print Archive
     http://cogprints.org/
A browsable archive that allows individuals to freely post research citations. It was developed at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England.
Computer Science Reading Room
     http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-164-0-0-0,00.html
Free access to all Springer Computer Science Journals. Includes the entire contents of more than 70 computer science journals and 35 volumes in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Registration required.

Periodicals, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.

Computer Dictionary
     http://hyperdictionary.com/computer
Based upon the FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing) Dictionary compiled by Dennis Howe. Contains approximately 14,000 entries.
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
     http://www.nist.gov/dads/
Over two dozen contributors have provided over 1300 computer science terms and definitions. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
     http://www.doaj.org
The DOAJ contains links to over 500 free, full text, scientific and scholarly journals. The DOAJ supports the open access initative that permits all users to freely read, download, copy, print, or link to online full text articles. Directory is maintained by Lund University Libraries in Sweden.
Help-Site: Computer Manuals
     http://help-site.com/
Website is maintained by one individual who has provided seventeen categories, almost 18,000 terms and links to nearly 200 websites.
Webopedia: Online Dictionary for Computer and Online Terms
     http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/
Webopedia is part of the internet.com network of Web sites owned and managed by Jupitermedia Corporation. Full-time editors collect information from computer science professionals and agencies in the field.

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