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Computer Science 100 and 108
SOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL HELP IN DOING RESEARCH
Choosing the Best Resources
(http://library.csun.edu/Research_Assistance/resourcechoice.html)
Developing a Search Strategy
(http://library.csun.edu/Research_Assistance/search.html)
How To Find a Book in the library
(http://library.csun.edu/Research_Assistance/i-opac.html)
How To Locate Articles Online or in the Library (http://library.csun.edu/Research_Assistance/locatearticles.html)
Online Citation Style Guides
(http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/e-books/estylegd.html)
Why Cite? Avoiding Plagiarism
(http://library.csun.edu/Research_Assistance/plagiarism.html)
How to do Library & Internet Research
(http://library.csun.edu/Research_Assistance/strategies.html)
Library Databases A to Z
(http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/index.html)
Library Services
(http://library.csun.edu/Library_Services/)
Computer Science Selective Bibliography
(http://library.csun.edu/dhelfer/compsci.html)
Computer Science Website Links
(http://library.csun.edu/dhelfer/csweb.html)
SCREENCASTS I HAVE DONE (WITH HELP FROM DANIELLE SKAGGS, THE LIBRARY'S ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN COORDINATOR):
- Basic CSUN Library Catalog Searching
(http://library.csun.edu/dskaggs/catalog_basic/catalog_basic.html) - Advanced Library Catalog Searching
(http://library.csun.edu/dskaggs/catalog_advanced/catalog_advanced.html) - Finding Journal Articles using the Oviatt Library Databases
(http://library.csun.edu/dskaggs/search_articles/search_articles.html) - Broadening and narrowing search results
( http://library.csun.edu/dskaggs/broaden_narrow_search/broaden_narrow_search.html) - Emailing search results and getting citations using your preferred citation format
( http://library.csun.edu/dskaggs/Emailing_articles/Emailing_articles.html)
SOURCES FOR PERIODICAL ARTICLES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND FOR GENERAL AND MULTISUBJECT DATABASES
ABI/INFORM Complete
Full text access to periodicals in the areas of business, economics, trade and industry.
ACM Digital Library Full text of every article published by the ACM.
ACM Guide to Computing Literature. Library has 1977 to present in print. (ref QA76 .C5854 - Floor 3)
Published by Association for Computing Machinery, this annual source indexes books, journals, conferences proceedings, and reports. Access is provided through several indexes including, author, keyword, category, and source indexes. Now available online from CSUN with some archives going
back to the 1950's.
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Applied Science and Technology Index. Library has: v.1- 1958-1995.
(ref Z7913 .I7 - Reference Room - Check Library Catalog for current location) Online version is now contained in Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Use OmniFile Full Text Mega on WilsonWeb. Cross searching of Education Index with Full Text, General Science Index with Full Text, Humanities Abstracts with Full Text, Readers' Guide Retrospective and Reader's Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Index with Full Text, Business Index with Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.
**Academic Search Elite
-Abstracts to 3,000 journals (over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals) with full text to 1200 of the journals in a wide variety of subject areas, 1985-
CQ Researcher - A full Text database which has great research on important issues of the day.
Computer & Control Abstracts. London, Institute of Electrical Engineers, v.4- 1969-2001 (ref QA76 .C548 - Stored in ASRS). Older vols - Floor 4.
International coverage of journals and meeting proceedings. Includes materials for
computers. Indexes journal articles and meeting papers. International coverage, includes some foreign language materials. INSPEC the computer version of Computer and Control Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts and Physics Abstracts is currently only available online at (http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/index.html#I)
Electrical and Electronics Abstracts. London, Institute of Electrical Engineers, v. 70- 1967-2002 ref Z5833 .E37 - Floor 3)
Indexes journal articles and meeting papers. International coverage. INSPEC the computer version of Computer and Control Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts and Physics Abstracts is currently only available online at (http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/index.html#I)
**InfoTrac General OneFile includes:
- Expanded Academic ASAP: indexes over 3500 general interest and scholarly journals, including titles in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology, with full text articles in over 2000 journals. 1980-
- Computer Database: indexes 659 computer journals with full text articles from 354 journals, 1980-
- General Business File ASAP: indexes over 3400 business sources with full text to 2723 journals, 1980-
- InfoTrac Religion and Philosophy
- Custom Military Database
INSPEC database is the computer version of Computer and Control Abstracts ( Floor3 (Ref) QA76 .C548 for latest 5 years in print and older issues are stored in the ASRS); Electrical and Electronics Abstracts (Ref Z5833 .E37 - Floor 3 and older issues are stored in the ASRS); and Physics Abstracts (Ref QC1 .P46 - Floor 4 and older issues are stored in the ASRS).
Internet PC Abstracts (formerly known as Microcomputer Index and Microcomputer Abstracts). Library has 1986 to 1998) (ref QA75.5 .M52 - Table 11- Reference Room). No longer received at CSUN in print or online. See INSPEC the computer version of Computer and Control Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts and Physics Abstracts is currently only available online at (http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/index.html#I) for more current citations.
A more recent service established in 1980, this covers microcomputers, software, peripherals, programming languages etc. Subject and product indexes provided.
Engineering Index Annual New York, Engineering Index, Inc. v. 1- 1906- 1997 (ref Z5851 .E62 - Stored in ASRS)
Covers international literature of engineering. Several hundred journals, some in foreign languages. Also available via Engineering Index Compendex Web on the web at URL (http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/index.html#E).
JStor Arts & Sciences, General Science Collections (Archival)
a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature.
LexisNexis Academic
Full text source for news, medical, legal and business sources.
Microcomputer Index and Microcomputer Abstracts. Library has 1986 to 1998. (ref QA75.5 .M52 - Reference Room). No longer received at CSUN in print or online. Known by various titles over the years which include Microcomputer Index, Microcomputer Abstract, as well as Internet PC Abstracts. See INSPEC the computer version of Computer and Control Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts and Physics Abstracts is currently only available online at (http://library.csun.edu/Find_Resources/Databases/index.html#I) for more current citations.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Discusses both sides of major issues of the day, as well as giving you information on the journal, magazine and newspaper articles, references sources, statistics, multimedia and websites that cover that topic as well. Our library has a limited number of concurrent users so you may not always be able to get into this database on your first try.
Science Citation Index. Philadelphia, Institute for Scientific Information.
Library has: 1962-1993 Not currently received. (ref Z7401 .S365 - Reference Room - Older eds. stored in ASRS)
A unique index covering all of the sciences; provides a means of tracing a subject forward
in time by referring to the work in which it was originally reported; also has a subject section. SciSearch® - is the online version of this cited reference science database. Includes all records published in Science Citation Index) Use DIALOG cited reference search Access to comprehensive DIALOG searching requires librarian assistance.
ScienceDirect
Access to the full text of over 1,100 Elesevier journals.
Wiley InterScience 1996- Wiley InterScience is a full-text resource of journal articles as well as indexing hundreds of online books and several Wiley reference works.
**Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Use OmniFile Full Text Mega
Cross searching of Education Index with Full Text, General Science Index with Full Text, Humanities Abstracts with Full Text, Readers' Guide Retrospective and Reader's Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Index with Full Text, Business Index with Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.
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