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Research Databases for Computer Science
Find journal articles using these research databases:
- ACM Digital LibraryFull-text of nearly all ACM journals, magazines, and proceedings back to the beginning of the ACM 50 years ago.
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer)Full-text. no.1267, 1997 on
- Computer & Information Systems Abstracts(1981-present) [CSA site]
- INSPEC(1898-present) [physics, electrical & computer engineering][Engineering Village]
- IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL)Full text archive back to 1988 of conference proceedings & journals of the IEEE & IEE; standards of the IEEE; a search engine to the set.
- SPIE Digital LibraryFull-text. Optics, photonics, and imaging. 1998 to present, and most of the archive back to 1990 of the Proceedings and the Journals.
- Scopus(1966 - present)
- Web of Science(1945-present for science & engineering) [allows citation searching]
- ScirusSearches over 300 million web pages. Find scientific, scholarly and technical data on the web. Contains reports, peer-reviewed articles, preprints, patents, journals and web pages.
- More Research Databases for Computer Science
- Other Full-Text Electronic Journals
- Research Databases for all disciplines
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