Washington and Lee University
| Producer: | Association for Computing Machinery | |
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| Description: | The Digital Library offers full text articles from every publication (journals, magazines, conference proceedings, transactions, etc.) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Also includes the ACM's Guide to Computing Literature, which offers bibliographic citations from major computing publishers. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Computer Science | |
| Producer: | Annual Reviews | |
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| Description: | An especially valuable form of secondary literature. Articles in the Annual Review series are comprehensive, dependable, and offer sizeable bibliographies; if you can find an article on your topic, it will probably point you to most of the relevant primary literature which had appeared up to its publication date, and give you a firm basis for understanding the evolution of research traditions in that subfield. | |
| Usage Tips: | For a more specialized search, see the individual Annual Review titles listed under corresponding subject guides.
For help using this resource, click here. Not all topics are to be found. If you get nothing useful, try a more general search. Wildcards: Two "wildcard" characters are supported -- the asterisk (*) and the question mark (?). The '?' stands for any character within the search string and the '*' stands for zero or more characters at the end of a search word. No word used in a query may start with a wildcard. Wildcards do not work inside quotation-mark-grouped phrases. Example: a search for "b?nd" finds bond, bend, band, bind plus all their plurals and "-ing" forms. Combining Terms: Any multi-word phrases that are to be treated as single search items must be entered in double quotation marks. For example "synaptic plasticity" finds articles in which the two words appear as a phrase. Words within parentheses are evaluated together before the whole search is evaluated. Thus, a search for "impaired driving" or "drunk driving" and opinion or attitude can be sharpened as ("impaired driving" or "drunk driving") and (opinion or attitude). | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Environmental Studies Geology Physics and Engineering Psychology Islamic Studies | |
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (Info)
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| Producer: | Ebsco | |
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| Description: | Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (CASC) covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges & research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for 1,720 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 670 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context. Research is aided by the inclusion of searchable cited references for key journals. | |
| Usage Tips: | Here is help with searching, navigating, printing, and more. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Computer Science Accounting Business Administration | |
| Producer: | Ingenta | |
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| Description: | One of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 19 million articles from 29,500 publications, including 8,000 online. You can search all of these journals or browse specific topics. Provides access to the full text of online articles through online purchase of individual articles or through subscriptions to publications. You will have to use the Periodical Finder to get the full text of articles. | |
| Usage Tips: | Combining Terms: Use parentheses ( ) to group search terms. For example, shark and (white or blue) will bring back articles containing the word shark plus the word white, and/or shark plus blue. Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases. For example, "third wave" might give you results from various academic disciplines. Apply Boolean operators with two or more phrases to restrict the search e.g. "third wave" and "feminist theory". Wildcards: Use asterisks * to create wildcard searches. A search for psychol* will return results containing psychology, psychological, and psychologically. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Environmental Studies Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
| Producer: | American Mathematical Society | |
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| Description: | An index to the scholarly literature of mathematics, including articles, books, papers, and other materials. The electronic file corresponds to the printed publications Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications which have extensive coverage of some aspects of Computer Science (especially the computational side). Many of the scholarly journals of Computer Science are included. Coverage: 1940 (the 1940 edition of Mathematical Reviews) to the present. Updated daily. | |
| Usage Tips: | Combining Terms: Adjacency is assumed within a field. For example, the search text invertible matrix will return only those records in which the two words occur consecutively. It will not match invertible triangular matrix. Parentheses may be used inside a field to override Boolean operator precedence rules. Wildcards: The wildcard character is the asterisk * and may be used in all fields except MR Number and Mathematics Subject Classifications fields (MSC Primary/Secondary and MSC Primary). Citations to articles in American Mathematical Society publications have the capability to link to the full text. Look for a "Full Article Text" button to the right of a citation. Important: You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader software to retrieve the text in PDF format. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Computer Science Mathematics | |
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Database (Info)
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| Producer: | National Technical Information Service | |
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| Description: | Index to over 1 million reports and studies which are the results of Government-sponsored or -supported research, primarily in science and technology, including military science and national security policy. Most items must be purchased or borrowed through interlibrary loan. Coverage 1990-to-date.
As a Federal Depository Library, Leyburn Library also has free access to another sub-set of the NTIS database, one which contains records for publications from 1964 to 2000 and which provides -- at no charge -- the complete texts of these documents. NTIS requires that searches of this database be conducted by a member of the library staff. Contact Dick Grefe for assistance. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Computer Science Government -- U.S. Federal | |
Journal Abbreviations In The Sciences (Info)
Connect to: Journal Abbreviations in the Sciences
| Producer: | Telford Science Library | |
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| Description: | A collection of resources for deciphering journal title abbreviations, which are very prevalent in the scientific scholarly literature. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Environmental Studies Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
Connect to: Safari Books Online
| Producer: | ProQuest and Safari Books Online | |
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| Description: | SafariŽ Tech Books Online provides reference sources from many of the leading technology publishers, including: Adobe, Microsoft, O'Reilly, QUE, Sams, and more. Featuring over 9,800 titles, it covers the technologies most essential to users including certification, enterprise computing, graphics, Java, Web development, Windows, XML, Linus/Unix, and more. | |
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| Tutorial: | http://proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/safari_db_guide.pdf | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Computer Science Accounting Business Administration | |
CogPrints Electronic Archive (Info)
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| Producer: | University of Southampton | |
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| Description: | Repository of self-archived (by the author) journal articles. Searchable and browseable. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Computer Science Psychology | |
Department Of Energy Information Bridge (Info)
Connect to: Department of Energy Information Bridge
| Producer: | OSTI | |
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| Description: | Provides free public access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1994 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format. The Information Bridge contains documents and citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here. Phrases/Adjacent Terms: Phrases (adjacent terms) can be searched for by using double quotes. For example, a search for "BIG EXPLOSION" will return results that contain the term BIG immediately followed by the term EXPLOSION. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Environmental Studies Physics and Engineering Science - General | |
National Science Foundation Award Abstracts Database (Info)
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| Producer: | National Science Foundation | |
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| Description: | Find out who's doing what research and what they said about it to get funding. You can search by keyword, by name, by institution. The records aren't research reports, but you can learn a lot about what's current and how science is presented to funding agencies. Includes advice on how to prepare a grant proposal and a search for funding your own research. | |
| Usage Tips: | A-Z Index of Funding Opportunities Guide to Funding Opportunities Grant Proposal Guide Award Search | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Geology Mathematics Physics and Engineering Science - General | |
| Producer: | Elsevier | |
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| Description: | Specialized search engine which focuses on over 450 million science-related Web pages. Also searches for publicly-accessible science journal article citations and PDF documents that Google misses, including documents from institutional repositories. Focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here.
A Firefox toolbar is available. | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Chemistry Computer Science Mathematics Physics and Engineering Psychology Science - General | |
| Producer: | Cornell University | |
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| Description: | Open access to 356,658 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology. Owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, and partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Search by keyword or browse by subject or date. | |
| Usage Tips: | For help using this resource, click here. Wildcards: Wild card '*' can be used anywhere but at the beginning of a term. Combining Terms: Combine terms with parentheses. To search for exact phrases, use double quotes (") - Warning: can be slow (try using AND instead) | |
| Librarian: | Mary Abdoney | |
| Descriptors: | Biology Computer Science Mathematics Physics and Engineering | |