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Computers, Information Science,
and Library Science Research at WKU

Databases and Research Sites | Information Technology Organizations | More WKU Links

Databases and Research Sites

* Academic Search Premier(EBSCOhost)  KYVL Interdisciplainary article database with some full text. * Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (WilsonWeb) KYVL
* ArticleFirst (FirstSearch)  KYVL Interdisciplainary article database containing new articles that may not be indexed elsewhere yet. * The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (Alf-Christian Achilles, Univ. of Karlsruhe) Approximately 1,000 searchable computer science-related bibliographies. The collection contains over 780,000 references, over 30,000 of which feature the full text of the paper.
* ProQuest Computing KYVL * BUBL Computing and Information Technology Journals Searchable tables of contents, plus some abstracts and full text articles, of 23 journals and newsletters.
* The Computing Research Repository (CoRR) * Current Cites: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Articles, Books, and Digital Documents on Information Technology
* Databases & Logic Programming (Michael Ley, Univ. Trier) Indexes tables of contents of conference proceedings, journals,books, and subject-oriented bibliographies relating to databases and logic programming. These can be browsed by publication or searched by words in the author or title. *

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Indexes doctoral dissertations since 1861 and master's theses since 1988, with dissertation abstracts since 1980 and 24 page previews of dissertations since 1997.

* Digital Library of Information Science and Technology The DLIST Archive comes from the School of Information Resources & Library Science and the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona. The database contains the full text of papers, data sets, instructional and help materials, pathfinders, reports, and bibliographies. * Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books This site offers searchable feature and brief reviews of books on computer software, hardware, development, networking, and related topics. The reviews cover 1990 through the present.
* Documents in Information Science
Documents in Information Science is a database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. At the moment we hold about 5648 articles and 804 papers, 2109 of them are downloable from our site.
* Electronic Journal Service (EBSCO)
The Electronic Journal Service allows users to search and access the full text of 497 journals which WKU Libraries subscribes to. This database is available both on and off campus. For passwords, call 270-745-6125 or email web.reference@wku.edu and provide your name and last 4 digits of your student I.D. number.
* EBSCOhost  KYVL
EBSCOhost is a group of databases. For computers and information technology, use Academic Search Premier, Masterfile Premier, Business Source Premier, Regional Business News, Newspaper Source, ERIC, Teacher Reference Center, Professional Development Collection, and Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts.
* Engineering e-journal search engine Searches the full text of one hundred engineering e-journals. Selected titles are free, full text and available without registration.  
* Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Provides extracts of evidence based library science research. * FirstSearch   KYVL
* HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources * Index Morganagus A Full-Text Indexof Library-Related Electronic Serials
* Library Literature (WilsonWeb) * Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
* MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)  KYVL Interdisciplainary article database with some full text. *

MathSciNet Indexes Mathematical Reviews since 1940 with abstracts since 1980, along with Current Mathematical Publications for recent and forthcoming publications. Links to the full text of articles from SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Computing, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, and SIAM Review.

* Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL) * PapersFirst (FirstSearch)  KYVL An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
* Proceedings (FirstSearch)  KYVL An index of worldwide conference proceedings. * Product ReviewNet indexes and abstracts reviews of products from hundreds of print magazines and online sources. This source will provide citations to reviews or link to the full text if it is available.
* Project Muse provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. * Scholarly Society Serial Publications provides links to full-text archives of some serial publications of scholarly societies. Most, but not all, of these publications are newsletters or similar to newsletters; a small number are research publications.
* Spatial Reasoning Bib Search (Amit Mukerjee, Indian Institute of Technology and State Univ. of New York -- Albany) Provides searching of several bibliographies on spatial reasoning, artificial intelligence, and related topics, with a total of over 6,500 citations. Also includes links to other related bibliographies on the web. * Unified Computer Science Technical Report Index (Marc VanHeyningen, Aventail Corp.) This searchable index has over 6,000 technical reports from over 100 different FTP sites. The full text of the papers is available.
* UnionLists (FirstSearch)  KYVL List of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries. * WorldCat (FirstSearch)  KYVL OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

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Information Technology Organizations

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.aaai.org/
Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT):
http://www.aect.org/
The Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia:
http://www.aaim.org
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T):
http://www.asis.org/
Association for Information Management (Aslib):
http://www.aslib.co.uk/
The Association for Computational Linguistics:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu:80/~acl/
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM):
http://www.acm.org/
The Association for Information and Image Management:
http://www.aiim.org/
The Association for Information Systems:
http://www.aisnet.org/
The Association for the Management of Information Technology in Higher Education (CAUSE):
http://www.cni.org/docs/CAUSE.html
The Association for Media and Technology in Education:
http://www.amtec.ca/
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI):
http://www.cni.org/
The Cognitive Science Society:
http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/
  EDUCAUSE:
http://www.educause.edu/
The HTML Writers' Guild:
http://www.hwg.org/
The Institute of Information Scientists:
http://www.iis.org.uk/
The International Federation for Information Processing:
http://www.ifip.or.at/
The International Federation for Systems Research:
http://www.ifsr.org/
The International Quantitative Linguistics Association:
http://www.ldv.uni-trier.de:8080/~iqla/
Library and Information Technology Association (LITA):
http://www.lita.org/
The North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society:
http://morden.csee.usf.edu/Nafipsf/
The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA):
http://www.spa.org/
World Organization of Webmasters:
http://www.joinwow.org/
   

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More Links

* Critically Evaluating Web Resources  
* Library Media Education Departmental Research Guide
* Links to Reference Resources on the Internet
* Style Manuals and Writing Guides in WKU Libraries and on the Internet

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