Research and Course Guides: Computer Science: Find Articles

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ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Searches the full-text Collection of all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications as well as The ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database focused exclusively on the field of computing.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Searches scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. Provides web access to more than five-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
Engineering Village (Compendex, GeoRef, INSPEC & Knovel) This link opens in a new window
Offers access to 12 engineering literature and patent databases providing coverage from a wide range of trusted engineering sources. The databases provide both breadth as well as depth of content and include Compendex, INSPEC, NTIS, GeoRef, US and EU patents, and more.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus provides a comprehensive overview of worldwide research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Use the “Create account” option to manage your search results.
Web of Science - All Databases This link opens in a new window
Includes Web of Science Core Collection (with citation indexes in both the social and natural sciences as well as Conference Proceedings Citation Index and Data Citation Index), MEDLINE, Biosis, Current Contents, and more.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Resources in behavioral and social science research, including human centered computing
arXiv.org e-Print archive This link opens in a new window
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,761,192 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
CiteSeerX This link opens in a new window
A library and search engine that focuses on the literature in computer and information science.

Additional Databases

MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
Computer Source This link opens in a new window
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Journal Title Abbreviations

Need to find the full journal title from an abbreviation, or vice-versa? Try these resources:

Web of Science All Databases: WITHIN Web of Science, click on the "Cited Reference Search" option, then "View abbreviation list"

PubMed Journal List: Includes full journal titles and abbreviations for all MEDLINE® titles as well as other non-MEDLINE titles in PubMed.

Science & Engineering Journal Abbreviations: Created by Kevin Lindstrom, University of British Columbia.