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ACM Digitial Library & Master SIG Database - Association of Computing Machinery 1968-  Updated Daily
ACM Digital Library Contents include: Over 102,500 full-text articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings.
Journal Tables of Contents (TOC) with over 33,000 citations from articles published in journals and magazines from 1954 forward A TOC Alert service. Conference Proceedings Tables of Contents with more than 69,000 citations from articles published in over 1100 volumes of conference proceedings since 1970. About 500,000 article references for ACM articles are available with about 200,000 links to full bibliographic information for those references, with 50,000 further links to full text. "Citings" to articles that were published subsequent to the one they are looking at and which reference it. The Master SIG package includes full text for the Newsletters, Proceedings and the Proceedings Series for all the Special Interest Groups of the ACM.  Each SIG can be searched individually or collectively as a group. For each SIG Newsletter, Proceedings and Proceeding Series, the Table of Contents Service is available as well as the current issue and an archive of the back issues.

ProQuest Computing -  ProQuest CSA                    1990s-                         Updated Daily
Provides comprehensive coverage of computer topics back to the 1990s. The database includes scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles among more than 350 titles, with nearly 300 available in full text. The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management. Search Guide

Computer Science Index  - EBSCO.                1965-                 Updated
Computer Science Index (formerly Computer Literature Index) provides abstracting and indexing of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at the highest scholarly and technical levels of computer science. The collection covers more than 6,500 periodicals and books, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s.  Computer Science Index focuses on subjects such as artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context, and much more. Enhancements to the original database include hundreds of new titles and searchable cited references for key academic journals. This database also includes editor-selected articles from magazine and journal titles in related areas of study.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - EBSCO             1966-                       Updated Monthly
Formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA), this database continues ISTA's renowned coverage of information science and significantly increases the coverage of library science. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings.  149 ISTA titles are upgraded to Core coverage, and 121 new periodicals are included. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. With coverage extending back to 1966, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts- Learned Information, Inc.  January 1989 - Updated Monthly
The largest online database with a personal computer focus, covering the use of microcomputers in education, business, industry, and the home. Citations include thorough abstracts of feature articles, news, columns, programs, product announcements, and product reviews (of software, hardware, and books) from over 200 widely read microcomputer publications. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing & Mining - Idea Group            Current Edition
Provides a comprehensive, critical and descriptive examination of concepts, issues, trends, and challenges in this rapidly expanding field of data warehousing and mining (DWM). This encyclopedia consists of more than 350 contributors from 32 countries, 1,800 terms and definitions, and more than 4,400 references. Provides in-depth coverage of evolutions, theories, methodologies, functionalities, and applications of DWM in such interdisciplinary industries as healthcare informatics, artificial intelligence, financial modeling, and applied statistics, making it a single source of knowledge and latest discoveries in the field of DWM.

ScienceResearch.com -   Deep Web Technologies, LLC            Current File   Updated Monthly
ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet web portal that searches thousands of high-quality journals and databases and ranks results by relevance on a single results page. Some full text is available but most citations include only a brief abstract. Subject areas covered include Astronomy, Biology & Nature, Chemistry, Computers & Technology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, General Science,  Health & Medicine,  Materials Science,  Mathematics,  Physics, and Social Sciences.

Computer Science Bibliographies -                                    Updated Monthly
A collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer sciences from various sources The collection contains more than 900,000 references to journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. More than 50,000 references contain URLs to an online version of the paper. Includes 2,000 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information. WWW.

Other Periodical Indexes and Databases

ABI / Inform  - ProQuest       1971-     Updated weekly
Provides abstracts of articles from more than 2,000 international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines covering numerous business subjects including: accounting, advertising, auditing, banking, broadcasting, computers, economics, engineering, finance, foreign investment, health care, human resources, insurance, international trade, international trends, investment analysis, management, marketing,  planning and strategy, public administration, real estate, taxation, telecommunications, and transportation.   FirstSearch / Search Guide

Academic Search Premier  Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.  Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social  sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.  WWW  Search Guide

Academic Search Elite    Ebsco            1990-          Updated Daily
Covers a wide range of academic areas: business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science,education, multi-cultural and general reference including: Full text for over 1,000 journals, and abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals; Coverage of 1,700 peer-reviewed journals; and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. WWW.  Search Guide

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP – Gale                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in full text. WWW. Search Guide


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