Information Technology

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

• Academic Search Complete. Provides full text for over 3,200 scholarly publications.
• Bitpipe.com. IT professional's guide to information technology resources. Browse this free online library for the latest technical white papers, webcasts and product information to help you make intelligent IT product purchasing decisions.
• Business Source Complete. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Database. Contains over 2.0 million bibliographic records to research reports, computer products, software, video cassettes, audio cassettes and more from the latest research sponsored by the United States and select foreign governments. The complete electronic file dates back to 1964. Most records include abstracts. Full text to research reports may be purchased from NTIS using the links in the bibliographic records.
• Science.gov 5.0. A free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies - access to over 200 million pages of scientific information.
• 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.
• TI Technical Articles. Find links to technical articles written by TI engineering experts for engineering trade magazines. Topics include how to select or design with amplifiers, data converters, clocks, interface and power management. They also address applications, such as audio, industrial, medical, high reliability and many others. Several sorting options can help you with your search.
• U.S. Patent Database.  See also Maine's Patent and Trademark Resource Center.

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

Patents

• Patent and Trademark Resource Center at Fogler Library. Reviews information about searching the U.S. patent database and obtaining copies of patents. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site and databases are at: www.uspto.gov.
• European Patent Office. esp@cenet. Search EP, PCT, Japanese, and other worldwide patents.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). PatentScope Full Text Database. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) full-text, bibliographic data and image coverage from 1978 to present, over 1.4 million international patent applications indexed. International Patent Classification system. List of Patent Databases in Different Countries.

Educational Resources

• Artificial Intelligence Library.
• Computer History Museum. Collection of computer related artifacts, photographs, films and documents. 
• Discovery Channel. Discovery School.  Try the brain boosters.
• IEEE Global History Network. Dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of innovation in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and computing, and all their related fields.
• Discover engineering.
• Engineer Girl. For everyone with lots 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.

News

• C|net. Online home of CBS Interactive's C|net program. Includes current reviews of software and hardware, industry news and a vast archive of freeware, shareware and demos.

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.

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.

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: 02/05/2013
by Martin Wallace