(Brauer Math/Physics Library is abbreviated M/P in the library catalog.)


I. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

A. Select list of Computer Science E-Journals available at UNC-Chapel Hill

B. Article Databases

INSPEC (1898-present)
INSPEC is the world's largest bibliographic database for the fields of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering, and information technology.

ISI Web of Science (1980-present)
Including Science Citation Index Expanded, the ISI Citation Databases provide cited reference searching of the scholarly literature in many disciplines.

The Alan Turing Digital Achive
King's College of Cambridge, UK has organized this massive archive of mainly unpublished papers and photographs of the father of the turing machine and referred by many as one of the founding fathers of computers. Included in the site content are talks and publications of Turing on the Automatic Computing Engine, his work at the Nartional Physical Laboratory, the theories of computable numbers, digital computers, and more. A very well put together source of Turing's work that can be found nowhere else.


C. Journal Collections (with full text and search and browse capabilities)

ACM Digital Library (1985-present)
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library contains an online archive of all ACM publications from 1985 to the present. Only citations are available for some conference proceedings published before 1991.

IEEE Xplore (1988-present, select content from 1950 onwards)
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Xplore provides access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, select content from 1950 onwards, and all current IEEE standards.

Kluwer Journals Online
Kluwer Journals Online is the gateway to journals published under the various Kluwer imprints.

LINK Springer Online
LINK is an information service that provides access to Springer journals and book series.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect serves as a gateway to selected journals published by Elsevier and its partners.


D. Preprint Sources

ArXiv.org e-Print archive (Cornell University)
ArXiv.org provides access to scholarly articles in physics, mathematics, non-linear science, and computer science.

E-print Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers (Department of Energy)
This resource provides access to e-prints and other scientific information on thousands of websites and databases around the world. It permits browsing by scientific discipline in addition to a Deep Web search capability that combines full-text searching of PDF documents on e-print websites with a distributed search across e-print databases.


E. E-Books

The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
This source provides links to over 400 free online books in mathematics and computer science. The site also offers searching and browsing by title and author.

Safari Tech Books Online
This electronic library provides access to full text versions of many books on programming and information technology.

Free Tech Books
A great open source site where authors post their works, covers topics ranging from all forms of programming, operating systems, graphics and image processing. Each book available in PDF format with great description, contents and reviews.


F. Reference Sources

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

STATSnetBASE
STATSnetBASE provides full text access to statistics reference sources published by CRC Press. Its content includes statistics in computer science, business, law, medicine, and many other scientific disciplines.


G. Complete list of Science and Technology Databases available at UNC-Chapel Hill


II. PRINT REFERENCE RESOURCES (located in Brauer Math/Physics Library)

The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook    MP REF QA76.C57315 1997
Aiming to provide a comprehensive reference for practicing computer scientists and engineers, this source covers fundamental principles, "best practices", and research horizons in ten major areas of this field.

Dictionary of Acronyms and Technical Abbreviations    MP REF TK5102.V55 2001
This dictionary defines technical abbreviations and acronyms, the symbolic names of organizations and institutions, and abbreviations for conferences, symposia, and workshops in information and communication technologies and other related areas.

Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History    MP REF QA76.15.E52 2001
This two-volume set covers computer history and connects that past with the contemporary world of computers.

Handbook of Multimedia Computing    MP REF QA76.575.H355 1999
This handbook presents the basic concepts and standards in multimedia computing and more detailed coverage of multimedia retrieval and processing techniques, multimedia systems and techniques, and multimedia communications and networking.

The Network Press Encyclopedia of Networking    MP REF TK5102.F445 2000
This encyclopedia addresses the basic concepts, facts, and approaches related to networks and networking.


III. INTERNET RESOURCES

A. Guides

Google Directory of Computer Science

Internet Resources by Michael Knee (American Library Association)

B. Scholarly Organizations

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

AAAI: American Association for Artificial Intelligence

CRA: Computing Research Association

IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

C. Other Relevant Sources

Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity
This source provides links to research reports, surveys, and books in computational complexity.

FreeTechBooks
This source provides links to over 100 free online books covering programming languages, scripting languages, operating systems, and other computer science topics.

Handbook of Applied Cryptography
This source presents the background, techniques, and algorithms of applied cryptography.

W3 Schools
One of the most comprehensive web developer tutorial sites on the internet. The site's biggest strengths include in-depth tutorials, which cover all the major standards established by the W3C including HTML, XML, Browser scripting, Server scripting, .Net, Multimedia, and Web Building. Also contains numerous code examples and additional reference resources.

IEEE Software Engineering Online


This research guide was originally created by Elise Allison, Graduate Assistant in Brauer Library from 2002 to 2004. The descriptions of electronic resources are based on information in vendor websites, and the descriptions of print resources are based on their prefaces and information from publisher websites.