Electronic Research Databases

Finding Journals

Print Reference Books

Electronic Reference Books

Style Guide

Library of Congress Classification System

Web Sites of Interest

Electronic Research Databases

Access Science (Link to Database – On campus/Off campus)– a collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. Offers easy accessibility research information — access to articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more.

Academic Search Elite (Link to Database – On campus/Off campus) - provides full text for more than 2,050 publications, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,468 journals in the collection. This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more.

Annual Reviews (Link to Database – On campus/Off campus) - comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.

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Finding Journals

Guide to Periodicals & Periodical Articles Use the Library's Journals A to Z List to search and find full text within the library's collection.

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals- "Free Full text, quality controlled ... scholary journals" in the area of "Computer Science". (http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=114 )

Print Reference Books

QA76.15 .E56 - Encyclopedia of computer science (2000) - Location: CURRENTREF

QA76.15 .M62- Microsoft Press computer dictionary : the comprehensive standard for business, school, library, and home(1994) - Location: REF-AREA

QA76.15 .H24- The dictionary of computing & digital media : terms & acronyms (1999) - Location: REF-AREA

QA76.15 .D55- Dictionary of computing (1996) - Location: REF-AREA

QA76.15 .D55 H8- Dictionary of computer words (1995)- Location: REF-AREA

QA76.15 .I12- IBM dictionary of computing (1994) - Location: REF-AREA

QA76.15 .S74- Computer dictionary (1993) - Location: REF-AREA

QA76.15 .S74- Webster's new world dictionary of computer terms (1993) - Location: REF-AREA

QA76.15 .M16- Macmillan encyclopedia of computers (1992) - Location: REF-AREA

PN6231.E4 H11- The New hacker's dictionary (1991) - Location: REF-AREA

QA76.15 .F85- The computer glossary : the complete illustrated desk reference (1991) - Location: REF-AREA

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Electronic Reference Books

E-books are retrieved by using the - Library Bishop Hodges - Electronic Book Collection Catalog. Enter the title in the search box and click on the Title Button. Click on the Bibliographic Access Link within the catalog record.

QA76.15 .S494 2000B - Collins Dictionary of Computing

TK5102 .H453 1998B - Dictionary of Communications Technology: Terms, Definitions, and Abbreviations

TK5105.875 .I57 B64 1999B - Dictionary of Multimedia and Internet Applications: a Guide for Developers and Users

TK5102 .M34 1999B - The Focal Illustrated Dictionary of Telecommunications

TK5102 .H37 2001B - Hargrave's Communications Dictionary

TK7804 .A47 2000B - Newnes Dictionary of Electronics

HF5548.4 .M525 M36 2004 EB - Office 2003 application development all-in-one desk reference for dummies

QA76.15 .H88 2004 EB  - The Hutchinson dictionary of computing and the internet

QA76.9 .D33 S25 2004 EB- Datacompression the complete reference

A76.76 .T49 S32 2003 EB- How to do everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0

QA76.5 .K4425 2002 EB - The complete idiot's guide to computer basics

TK5105.59 .B87 2001 EB - RSA Security's official guide to cryptography

QA76.73 .J38 F552 1999 EB 
- Java enterprise in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference

QA76.73 .J38 .F553 1999 EB - Java in a nutshell - a desktop quick reference

QA76.642 .M65 1998 EB - MPI-the complete reference. Vol. 1, The MPI core

QA76.642 .M65 V.2 1998 EB  - MPI - the complete reference Vol. 2, The MPI-2 extensions

QA76.73 .J39 F553 1998 EB 
- JavaScript: the definitive guide

QA76.73 .P22 P473 1998 EB  - Perl 5 complete

QA76.9 .o35 A45 1998 EB - Building object applications that work: your step-by step handbook for developing robust systems with object technology

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Style Guide

Visit Academic Resource Center Writing Guides

Visit Knight Cite - A project of Heckman Library of Calvin College - this is a citation creation tool. http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/

PE 1408 .H11 W95 - A writer's reference/Diana Hacker - Location - Circulation Desk

Library of Congress Classification System – LC Subject Headings

QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science

QA76.75-76.765 Computer software

Web Sites of Interest

TechEncyclopedia- Free online encyclopedia with more than 20,000 IT terms.(http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/)

Webopedia  - online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology definitions.(http://webopedia.com/)

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library -  (NCSTR) an international collection of computer science technical reports from computer science departments and industrial and government research laboratories, available for non-commercial and educational use. (http://www.ncstrl.org/)

Hobbes' Internet Timeline - a table of the history of the Internet with links to events, achievements, and people.(http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/)

An Atlas of Cyberspaces-"an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces."  (http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/)

Librarians's Index to the Internet: Computers - information on topics such as: computer dictionaries, device drivers, Linux, and telecommuting.(http://lii.org/search/file/computers)

InfoMine: Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Math- linking to information on topics such as: computational mechanics, computer network protocols,  computer languages, etc.(http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?physci) 

American Association for Artifical Intelligence– Full text of AI Magazine (ISSN 0738-4602) available from 1980 to 2001.(http://www.aaai.org/)

 

Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing - http://nightflight.com/foldoc/

 

html code tutorial - "Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere." http://htmlcodetutorial.com/

 

Programmers Heaven - "This site is dedicated to programmers all over the world. Our main goals is to provide a complete start-off for programming related web surging and file downloading." http://www.programmersheaven.com/

 

W3 Schools - "Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free. At W3 Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP." http://www.w3schools.com/