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At the National Academy Press web site, you can
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AccessScience WC
Access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from
the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science
News® headlines, biographies, 110,000+ definitions from The McGraw-Hill
Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, and more.
Chronology
of Historical Events in Computing
A compilation of historical computing events that have been taken from a
variety of cited sources.
Dictionary of Computing and
Digital Media Science Ref QA 76.15 H318 1999.
Encyclopedia of Computer Science Science
Ref q QA 76.15 E48 2000.
Free Online Dictionary
of Computing
FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms,
jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems,
networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics,
institutions,
companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.
Edited by Dennis Howe.
Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science Science Ref QA 76 H279 1994.
New Hacker's Dictionary Science Ref PN 6231 E4 H3 1996.
Oxford Reference Online WC
Oxford Reference Online contains over 100 dictionary, language reference,
and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
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when and where the article was published).
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from each citation to search one or more electronic journal sources through
the Wellesley College Library Catalog.
Use the name of the journal as the title. If Wellesley does not own the article,
you can request it via Interlibrary Loan
(ILL).
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Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search
Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for
more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
ACM's
Digital Library
ACM's Digital Library provides abstracts and article citations for free with
registration.
arXiv
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear
science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
CiteSeer
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses
primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
CogNet WC
is the MIT electronic community for cognitive and brain sciences, including
computational intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, neurosciences,
and evolution. Resources available on CogNet include: books, conference
proceedings, journals, video, and reference tools.
on-campus
access / off-campus
access (Search
function may not work with off-campus access.)
Cogprints Electronic Archive
CogPrints is an electronic archive for self-archive papers in many areas of
Computer Science
Google
Scholar
Use Google Scholar to find scholarly literature available across the
web, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and
technical reports from
all broad areas of research.
IEEE Computer Digital
Library
The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library provides
free abstracts and article citations to 22 society magazines and transactions
and over 1,200 selected conference proceedings.
INSPEC (Computerized searches available
by appointment with a librarian)
INSPEC contains citations, with abstracts, to the worldwide literature in physics,
electronics and electrical engineering, computers, computing, and control,
and information technology. Email Neil
Nero or Irene Laursen to
make an appointment.
Networked
Computer Science Technical Reference Library
(NCSTRL, pronounced "ancestral") is an international collection of computer
science technical reports from Computer Science departments and research laboratories,
made available for non-commercial and educational use.
Science
Direct WC
Science Direct has
full-text articles from many Computer Science journals. Access
to articles with green icons only. 1995+
TechXtra
TechXtra is a free service which cross-searches around twenty databases in engineering,
mathematics and computing.
Web of
Science WC
Web of Science at Wellesley consists of the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is very useful in performing interdisciplinary subject
searches and
citation searches.
Other databases may be useful for
you, depending on your specific topic and approach. The Databases A-Z page lists all of the electronic resources and what subjects and
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Citations
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Internet links Tutorials & Web-based
Courses: Element
K WC
Free
tutorials for Wellesley students, faculty and staff are available via
Element K. If you don't already have an Element K account, start
here.
C Tutorial for CS 331 Common LISP: The language, 2nd Edition (1990) by Guy L. Steele, Jr.
Java
Tutorials from IBM DeveloperWorks.
Parallel
Computing introductory lectures
only three lectures are available via the Web,
the remaining lectures are available via CD-ROMs in the Science
Library.
UNIX
Tutorial from Idaho State University
Associations and Other Interesting Web Sites: IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Computer Society is the worlds' oldest and largest professional association
of people in computing.
ACM Crossroads Association of Computing Machinery's student e-zine.
ACM's
Collected Algorithms Online
The
Ada Project
(TAP),
is an official ACM Committee on the Status
of Women in Computing project to act as a clearinghouse for information
and resources related to Women in Computing. It covers information from fellowships
to clip art of women in nontraditional careers.
SUNY Stony Brook Algorithm
Repository by Steven Skiena.
Frequently
Asked Questions in Computer Science
Alex Lopez-Ortiz
calls the contents of this site non-trivial Computer Science trivia.
Contact the departmental Library liaison
Contact: Neil Nero, library
research liaison to Computer Science
Contact: Deborah Lenares, library
collections liaison to Computer Science
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