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Subject Guide:  Computer Science

Reference Books:  These books are located in the Reference area on the first floor of the library and may be used in the library.  Reference books can be good sources of factual and background information on a topic and can help you get started with your research.

The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook,  Ref. QA 76 C57315 1997

Dictionary of Personal Computing and The Internet,  Ref QA 76.17 D320 1997

Books:  To search for books in the circulating collections of the Mantor Library and other University of Maine System libraries, use URSUS (the the online catalog).  Books with a location of FAR Stacks, FAR Young Adult, and FAR Juvenile are in the Mantor Library's collection.  Books available from other URSUS libraries may be requested online using your library barcode.

Journal Articles:  Use the Indexes and Databases resources to locate journal articles.  Some databases that are useful for research in this subject area are:

Academic Search Premier

ERIC

Ingenta

ScienceDirect

Recommended Web Resources

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.aaai.org/)

Association of C++ and C Users (http://www.accu.org/)

BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html)

CERN (http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/Achievements/WorldWideWeb/WWW-en.html)

CERT/CC: Internet Security (http://www.cert.org/)

Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/)

CoRR- Computing Research Repository (http://arxiv.org/corr/home)

VDictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (http://www.nist.gov/dads/)

IEEE Computer Society (http://www.computer.org/)

IEEE Standards (http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/olis/)

ISOC Internet Standards and Protocols (http://www.isoc.org/standards/)

Linux Online (http://www.linux.org/)

MatrixMarket (http://math.nist.gov/MatrixMarket)

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (http://www.csail.mit.edu/index.php)

National Academies of Science (http://www.nas.edu/)

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/)

NSF: Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE)

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (http://www.ncstrl.org)

PC Magazine Online (http://www.pcmag.com/)

Programmer’s Heaven (http://www.programmersheaven.com/)

SHODOR Education Foundation Inc: A National Resource for Computational Science Education (http://www.shodor.org)

TechRepublic  (http://techrepublic.com.com/)

TechWeb (http://www.techweb.com/)

University of Albany’s Computer Science Guide (http://library.albany.edu/subject/csci.htm)

Webopaedia - Dictionary for Computing and Internet Terms (http://www.webopedia.com/)

Whatis? IT Dictionary (http://whatis.techtarget.com/)

World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/)

If you have questions about using the library or any of its resources or if you would like assistance with your research, please see a librarian.

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