This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

Computers in Education: LB1028.43-LB1028.75 ------- Cybernetics (bionics, a.i., information theory, etc.): Q300-Q390 ------- Programming Languages: QA76.5-QA76.75 ------- Software Engineering: QA76.75-QA76.9 ------- Machine Theory: QA267-QA268 ------- Computer Graphics: T385 ------- Optical Data Processing: TA1630-TA1650 ------- Telecommunication: TK5101-TK5105.9 ------- Computer Engineering: TK7885-TK7895 ------- Computer Science Bibliography: Z5640-Z5644 ------- Electronics Bibliography: Z5836-Z5839

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

The following services are recommended for courses for first-year students and nonmajors:

• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text.
• Science (Magazine) Online (AAAS).
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.

The following services are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers:

• MathSciNet: This Database contains Mathematical Reviews, with indexing from 1940 to 1979 and full reviews from 1980 to the present, (updated monthly, as well as Current Mathematical Publications, updated daily).
• ACM Digital Library: A large collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
• Science (Magazine) Online (AAAS).
• IEEE Computer Society Magazine Package: Access to articles from 14 IEEE journals back to 1988.
• SpringerLink: Access to about 1000 Springer journals with full content back to about 1997.
• ejournal collections by individual publisher: Cambridge Journals Online, ScienceDirect (Elsevier), and Wiley Interscience. Abstracting of the nearly 2000 science journals published by these companies, with some full-text available at each site (individually).
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): "This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals" (across all subject areas, and in multiple languages).
• Electronic Journal Service: EJS (EBSCOhost): Full-text articles, tables of content, and abstracts from journals across all subject areas.
• Google Scholar: As described above.
• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• Ingenta: A free online database indexing some 28000 journals and magazines from the 1980s onward. Offers for-pay text delivery.
• JSTOR: Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete archival collections of over 225 (and growing) core scholarly journals up to the most recent three to five years.
• IOPScience (Institute of Physics): 250,000 articles in full-text from the serial publications of the IOP.
• Applied Science and Technology Index: A Web-based database that indexes a number of computer science-related titles. A paper version running through 1997 is located in Reference at TA1 .A66 (ref.per.ind.).
• Computer Literature Index: Paper index for persons involved in the "practicing end of the computer profession." Coverage ended in 2001. Located in Reference at QA76.5 .Q31ax (ref.per.ind.).
• Computing Reviews: A paper product that reviews the emerging literature of computer science. Located in Reference at QA1.C6x (ref.per.ind.).
• ACM Guide to Computer Literature: A paper index for the field of computer science. Ended in 1997. Located in Reference at QA76.C5854 (ref.per.ind.).
• Microcomputer Index/Abstracts: paper index/abstract covering 1982-1997. Located in Reference at QA75.5 .M5 (ref.per.ind.).

Special resource: Comprehensive List of Indexes, Abstracts, and Full-Text Services Related to the Natural & Applied Sciences Held by University Libraries
Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
Special resource:  Knovel Online Library: A set of technical reference books and tables of particular interest to engineering, mathematics, physics, astronomy, and chemistry.

3. Monographic Reference Works in Helm Library

The following are recommended for use:

• handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc.: available in Reference in the QA75-QA76 and TK parts of the collection. See the Shelf List of Science & Technology-Related Reference Works in the Reference Department, Helm Library.

4. Computer Science Faculty

Computer Science Faculty Profiles http://cs.wku.edu/new/people.htm

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

• [special:]  Scholarly Societies Project: Computer Science [list of cs-related associations] http://www.scholarly-societies.org/compsci_soc.html
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence http://www.aaai.org/
• American Computer Scientists Association (ACSA) http://www.acsa.net/
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) http://www.acm.org/
• Computing Research Association (CRA) http://cra.org/
• IEEE Computer Society http://www.computer.org/
• Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP) http://www.iccp.org/
• International Computer Security Association (ICSA) http://www.icsa.net/
• Internet Society http://www.isoc.org/
• Linux Online http://www.linux.org/
• Network and Systems Professionals Association (NaSPA) http://www.naspa.com/
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) http://www.siam.org/
• Society for Information Display (SID) http://www.sid.org/
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon http://www.acm.org/upe/
• US Internet Industry Association (USIIA) http://www.usiia.org/

6. Web Sites Recommended by Computer Science Faculty

Literature/Gateways etc.           News/Ethics/Issues           Dictionaries           History/Jobs/Women           Other Sites

CS Literature & General Gateways/Search Engines

• ACM Digital Library http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm
• arXiv.org e-Print Archive [e-print service] http://arxiv.org/
• CiteSeer.IST: Scientific Literature Digital Library [indexing & citation indexing of CS articles] http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html
• Computer Science [links] http://library.albany.edu/subject/csci.htm
• Directory of Computing Science Journals http://elib.cs.sfu.ca/cs-journals/
• Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity [research surveys, books & reports] http://eccc.hpi-web.de/eccc/
• FreeTechBooks.com [free cs & engineering books & lecture notes] http://www.freetechbooks.com/
• NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library [indexing/abstracting of CS articles by archive location] http://www.ncstrl.org/
• Rexa.info [computer science search engine] http://rexa.info/
• Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis FAQ http://www.mathcom.com/corpdir/techinfo.mdir/index.html
• Yahoo: Computer Science http://dir.yahoo.com/science/computer_science/

News, Ethics & Issues

• Application Development Trends [news & discussion] http://www.adtmag.com/
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) [homepage] http://www.cpsr.org/
• Ethics in Computing [issues] http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/
• Network Computing [research, news & resources] http://www.networkcomputing.com/

Online CS Dictionaries

• Computer Glossary (Fact Monster) http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0006024.html
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing http://nightflight.com/foldoc/
• Linktionary.com: Networking Defined and Hyperlinked [dictionary with links] http://www.linktionary.com/
• TechDictionary.com [computer science terms dictionary] http://www.techdictionary.com/
• TechEncyclopedia [information technology dictionary] http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/

• The Ada Project [women in computing] http://women.cs.cmu.edu/ada/
• Chronology of Personal Computers [historical chronology of events] http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/
• Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/
• Developers.net Tech Jobs Board http://www.developers.net/careers/
• First Search, Inc. [job searching] http://www.firstsearch.com/
• The History of Computing Project http://www.thocp.net/
• History of the Internet http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.htm
• Women in Computing [collection of articles] http://women.acm.org/search/index.php

• Ada Home http://www.adahome.com/
• AI Topics [library of information on artificial intelligence] http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/aitopics.html
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI) http://www.ansi.org/
• BotSpot http://www.botspot.com/
• Computer Graphik Topics http://www.inigraphics.net/press/topics/
• Cprogramming.com [getting started in C & C++] http://www.cprogramming.com/
• CSERD: Computational Science Education Resources [tutorials & resources] http://www.shodor.org/cserd/
• Data Mining Resources http://www.dataminingresources.info/
• Dept. of Computer Science, Western Kentucky University http://cs.wku.edu/
• Evoweb (EvoNet) [evolutionary computing] http://evonet.lri.fr/
• FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory http://directory.fsf.org/
• Geektools http://whois.geektools.com/
• HotScripts.com [directory of Web programming resources] http://www.hotscripts.com/
• The Information Technology Professional's Resource Center http://www.itprc.com/
• Internet.com: Linux/Open Source Channel http://www.internet.com/sections/linux.html
• Internet Law Page http://www.ipwatchdog.com/internet.html
• LivingInternet.com [everything about the Internet] http://livinginternet.com/
• Mathtools.net [links for the technical computing community] http://www.mathtools.net/
• Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
• NSSN Search Engine for Standards [to identify technical standards] http://www.nssn.org/
• Programmers Heaven http://www.programmersheaven.com/
• Programming Language Research [information & resources] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/language-research.html
• Programming Tutorials [for Java, JavaScript, Python, XML, C#, etc.] http://www.dickbaldwin.com/
• The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs
• Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) http://www.sei.cmu.edu/
• Symantec AntiVirus Research Center: Virus Encyclopedia http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html
• Visual Basic-Specific Search Engine (VB.com) http://searchvb.techtarget.com/
• The Web Developer's Virtual Library http://www.wdvl.com/
• The Web Robots Pages http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
• WebAIM [re web accessibility, especially for disabled persons] http://www.webaim.org/
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [forum for information, commerce & communication on W3C] http://www.w3.org/

University Libraries Liaison: Rob Harbison (x6122 / rob.harbison@wku.edu) last updated 12/5/2008
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