Computer Science

Databases: find journal articles, technical reports, standards, etc.

• Academic Search Premier. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications.
• ACM Digital Library. Registration is free, but full-text is for ACM members only. 1985 to present.
• IEEE Xplore. Index to IEEE and IET publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.  Full text of IEEE and IET journals, conference proceedings and standards is available at Fogler Library.
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science.  From Springerlink.
• Business Source Premier. Provides full text for over 2500 business journals.
• Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
• Citidel: Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library. Guide to internet tools and research resources developed by a university consortium.
• CogPrints. CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in many areas of Computer Science. Full text of the cited references is available.
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies. Some links to the online fulltext.
• Computing Research Respository (CoRR). Preprints in computer science. Mechanisms for searching, downloading and submitting preprints are provided.
• Directory of Computing Science Journals. Table of contents and index for 522 journals in the field of computer science, many publishers are represented.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Scientific and Technical Information Network.  PARTIAL FULL TEXT DATABASE.  Access to all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added from late December 1974 to present, many from 1998 to present in full text.
• E-Print Network. Maintained by the Dept. of Energy. Allows simultaneous searching of a variety of preprint servers.
• Engineering E-journal Search Engine. Full-text from over 150 trade e-journals. Do not confuse this site with Compendex (Engineering Index).
• Google Scholar. Beta version, under construction. Indexes scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar includes articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results using their relevance criteria. The ranking evaluates the full text of an article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature.
• IngentaConnect (Formerly UnCover). Coverage is 1988 - Present.
• MasterFILE Premier. Provides full text for over 1,830 general reference, business, consumer health, general science. Full text extends back to January, 1990. Indexing and abstracts is available for an additional 1,000 journals.
• MInd: The Meetings Index. Provides a free databases of future national and international conferences, regional meetings, and short courses.  
• Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL). Computer science technical reports from over 100 institutions worldwide. Over 20,000 reports are available in full text.
• National Standards Systems Network (NSSN).
• Science.gov. New improved gateway to U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700 web sites.
• Scirus. produced by Elsevier. Use their advanced search which provides many options for full text searching across a variety of databases.  
• SIAM Journals Online Database.
• Searchable Physics Information Notices (SPIN). A bibliographic database published by the American Institute of Physics. It is updated every 2 weeks with coverage of all AIP journals and proceedings. Coverage also includes journals from other societies including the Electrochemical Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, etc.
• TechStreet: Technical Information Superstore. Most comprehensive index for engineering standards. Also indexes books, materials physical property data, software and free professional trade magazines.
• USA Information Systems. Provides free database of military, government and society technical standards. Choose the Technical Documents Library. Also a good resource for vendors of technical services, products and parts. 
• U.S. Patent Database.  See also Maine's Patent and Trademark Depository Library.

Library Catalogs

• URSUS. University of Maine System catalog.  
• MaineCat. College, university, and major public libraries in Maine.  
• Library of Congress. Online catalog.
• British Library. Catalogue.
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) Catalog.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
• Bartleby.com. Dictionaries, thesaurus, quotations, etc.
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. Compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. An ever expanding dictionary of computing terminology and humor.
• Infoplease.com. Encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary and thesaurus in one resource with good science and technology coverage. Nobel and science awards page. 
• Tech Encyclopedia.
• Virtual Museum of Computing.
• Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia.

Educational Resources

• AI Topics. American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
• Byte Magazine.
• Computer History Museum. Collection of computer related artifacts, photographs, films and documents. 
• Discovery Channel. Discovery School.  Try the brain boosters.
• IEEE Virtual Museum. 
• Discover engineering.
• Engineer Girl. For everyone with lot’s of links and information.
• Engineering your Future.
• Frank Potter's Science Gems. Great links to great resources for students, parents, teachers, etc. Sorted by categories and grade levels.
• Future Scientists & Engineers of America (FSEA).
• How Stuff Works.
• Living Internet. How does it work and how was it invented. Programming methods for the internet.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• Math/Science Network. Expanding Your Horizons.     
• Mathtools.net. Collection of tutorials, books, and web sites on programming languages including MATLAB, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, etc. Full text tutorials are extensive.      
• National Engineers Week.
• Try Science. Sponsored by the New York Hall of Science.

Online Handbooks

• C++ Resources Network. Presents a well designed tutorial that includes clear explanations and valuable examples and free source code.
• Collected Algorithms of the ACM. Online versions available for downloading.
• Electronic Library of Mathematics.
• Fortran Library. A free technical programming site with Fortran standards and online articles and books.
• Free Tech Books:  Lists many books on programming languages, operating systems, compilers, etc. 
• Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures. by G. Gonnet.
• Linux Documentation Project.
• Mathtools.net. Collection of tutorials, books, and web sites on programming languages including MATLAB, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, etc. Full text tutorials are extensive.
• Numerical Recipes Online Online versions of these classic textbooks.
• Online Books Page. Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania.  
• Programmer's Heaven.com. Contains tutorials and articles on languages, applications, etc.
• Stony Brook Algorithm Repository.
• Textbooks in Mathematics. These textbooks are available for free on the Internet.
• Virus Encyclopedia.
• Visual Basic Web Directory. A source of tutorials, code, and tips for using Visual Basic language. 

Software Resources

• C|net. Online home of cable television's C|net program. Includes current reviews of software and hardware, industry news and a vast archive of freeware, shareware and demos
• Collected Algorithms of the ACM. Online versions available for downloading.
• DevX Sourcebank. Collection of source code and other resources gathered from hundreds of technical sites around the Web. Searching and browsing features are available.
• Download.com. Download software, music or games.
• Engineers.com Software Directory. Directory of software packages useful to engineers, much of it shareware.
• Software Directory Directory. Aims to include shareware, free ware, public domain, etc. Compiled at Stanford University.
• SourceForge.net. Large resource for open source software and applications. Provides mechanisms to browse or search their database. 

Codes of Ethics

• Codes of Ethics for Computing and Information Systems.

Standards

• National Standards Systems Network (NSSN).
• TechStreet: Technical Information Superstore. Most comprehensive index for engineering standards. Also indexes books, materials physical property data, software and free professional trade magazines.
• USA Information Systems. Provides free database of military, government and society technical standards. Choose the Technical Documents Library. Also a good resource for vendors of technical services, products and parts. 

Maine Resources

• IEEE Computer/Electron Devices Society. Maine Chapter.
• Institute for a Strong Maine Economy.
• Maine Economic Growth Council.
• Maine Economic Research Institute.
• Maine Engineering Promotion Council.
• Maine Technology Institute.
• Maine's Software and Information Technology Industry Association (MESDA).
• University of Maine. Dept. of Computer Science.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• University of Maine. Office of the Vice President for Research.

Professional Societies and Research Organizations

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC).
• Computing Research Association.
• IEEE Computer Society.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
• Internet Society.
• Maine's Software and Information Technology Industry Association (MESDA).
• Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing. Part of the Dept. of Energy. 
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
• USENIX. The Advanced Computing Systems Association.

Internet Directories

• Computer Science Resources. SUNY Albany, Library.
• INFOMINE. Scholarly internet resources. University of California, Riverside.
• Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.
• LANL Research Library: Computer Science.
• Scitechresources.gov. Catalog of U.S. government science and technology web sites.
• WWW Virtual Library: Computing.

Raymond H. Fogler Library University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207-581-1661

Updated: 06/27/2008
by Martin Wallace