Information Technology

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

• Academic Search Premier. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications.
• Business Source Premier. Provides full text for over 2500 business journals.
• 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.
• ACM Digital Library. Registration is free, but full-text is for ACM members only.
• Citeseer.com. Scientific Literature Digital Library. NEC Corp. Indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Has citation searching component.
• 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 variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. They rank results based on their relevance criteria.
• Ingenta (Formerly UnCover). Coverage is 1988 - Present.
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science.  From Springerlink.
• 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.
• 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.
• TechStreet: Technical Information Superstore. Most comprehensive index for engineering standards. Also indexes books, materials physical property data, software and free professional trade magazines.
• 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.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• 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.
• Linktionary.com.  Dictionary and encyclopedia on networking and internet topics.
• Tech Encyclopedia.
• Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia.

Educational Resources

• Artificial Intelligence Library.
• 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.

Electronic Journals

• CIO: Corporate Information Officer.
• Internet.com. Internet and IT network.  
• Journal of Information Technology Education.
• List of IT publications.
• TechWeb.com. IT news and developments.

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

• Target Technology Center. Maine's Applied Technology Development Centers
• Maine's Software and Information Technology Industry Association (MESDA).
• New Media Program. University of Maine.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Computer Science.

Government Agencies

• Chief Information Officers Council. Members from U.S. government agencies. 
• Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC).
• National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory.
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). An agency of the Dept. of Commerce.
• President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC).

Professional Societies

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP).
• Computing Research Association.
• IEEE Computer Society.
• Information Technology Association of America (ITAA).
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Internet Society.
• Library and Information Technology Association (LITA). A division of the American Library Association (ALA).
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
• USENIX. The Advanced Computing Systems Association.

Internet Directories

• INFOMINE. Scholarly internet resources. University of California, Riverside.
• ITPRC.com. Information technology professional's resource center.

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

Updated: 06/27/2008
by Martin Wallace