Research guides: Computer Science: Find books

Use interlibrary loan (ILL) to request books not available from Waterloo

Use interlibrary loan (ILL) if you cannot find the book you want in the Library's catalogue. The Library will borrow it from another institution, usually at no cost to you.

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eBook collections

ACM Books
Ebooks published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Covers a wide
range of Computer Science research.

ACM Books is a series of scholarly research monographs and graduate-level
texts, authored by computer scientists and practitioners at the forefront of
computing technology and includes books across the entire spectrum of
computer science.

Taylor and Francis
Titles that were formerly on the CRCNetbase platform are now available on Taylor and Francis eBooks. A hybrid of the bestselling engineering handbooks and critically acclaimed Chapman & Hall references, this Collection provides access the latest e-books in MATLAB, C ++, and Java. Includes other authoritative resources for the study, design, development, implementation, support, or management of computer-based information systems.

SpringerLink - eBooks
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Professional Computing and Web Design, and many other e-books published by Springer.
O'Reilly Higher Education
Includes books and videos on a wide array of topics including technology, digital media, entrepreneurship and business.
Coverage: Varies
Knovel
Provides data and technical references.
Coverage: n.a.

Series, dictionaries, and encyclopedias

Synthesis Digital Library
Computer science and engineering titles published by Morgan and Claypool. Also available on the Scholars Portal platform.
Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th Edition
Full-text online book from ACM.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Dijkstra Manuscripts
An archive of technical notes, trip reports, insightful observations, and commentaries written by ACM Turing Award winner Edsger Wybe Dijkstra.
Sookman computer, Internet and electronic commerce law
Canadian information on the law of computers, the Internet and eCommerce.
WolframAlpha
Question-Answer style encyclopedia