Contents:

• Find books
• Find background information
• Find articles & essays
• Tracing citations
• Key scholarly websites

Offcampus Access Databases A-Z Research Guides by Subject | by Course Reference Books Online Library Catalog

Wellesley College Library catalog
In addition to books, you will also find journals, videos, and more.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Wellesley College faculty, students, and staff may use Interlibrary Loan and or other Document Delivery services to
borrow or obtain copies of materials not found in Wellesley's collection.

Other nearby library catalogs
Links to other nearby libraries.

WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

National Academies Press
At the National Academy Press web site, you can search over 3,000 full-text books online for specific subject terms, in order to locate relevant chapters or book titles. Coverage includes subjects like physical sciences, materials science/engineering, environmental issues, and more.

Floor Map of the Science Library

AccessScience
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.

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.

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

The following databases provide either full-text articles or citations (information about when and where the article was published).
Once you have a citation for an article, use the Find It! @ Wellesley link 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).

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals.

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
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
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
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 time span they cover.

Use the Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present) in Web of Science

Key scholarly websites

Tutorials & Web-based Courses

Element K
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.

Wellesley College Library · WCIS · Neil Nero · last modified: September 4, 2009