Research Guides: Computer Science &amp; Information Systems: Home

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This Research Guide is designed to help you with your research at HPU Libraries by providing links to print and electronic resources appropriate to Computer Science.

The Libraries provide about 100,000 books in two libraries; and 100,000+ ebooks and 80,000+ ejournals accessible on- or off-campus via the Databases page, located on the Libraries' tab in HPU Portal.

Key Resources for Computer Science & Information Systems

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Provides open access to 1,000,000+ e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
Business Source Complete: Business Searching Interface (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The Business Searching Interface (BSI) provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search, if desired.

CiteSeerX
"CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science."

Computer Source (EBSCO) 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.
Computer Science (GALE) This link opens in a new window
Computer Science provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database includes computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.
Google Scholar @ HPU This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Accessing Google Scholar via this link authenticates your off-campus computer, enabling off-campus access to the Libraries' resources.
Information Science (GALE) This link opens in a new window
Information Science provides access to scholarly journals and trade publications essential for information professionals and other knowledge workers. The database offers coverage of topics including information infrastructure, metadata architecture, publishing, and more.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to scholarly journals in the physical, social and health sciences.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text Springer ebooks (published from 2005 – 2013) and journals focusing primarily on science, technology and medicine.
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text peer-reviewed academic journals in many subject areas.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Available through SpringerLink.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Key Ebook Collections for Computer Science

The following is a list of searchable eBook collections that provide coverage of most major subject areas, including Computer Science subjects.

Ebook Central (ProQuest)
Provides full text access to electronic books in all subject areas. The Academic Complete collection currently includes more thatn 50,000 titles.

eBooks (Gale) This link opens in a new window
eBooks (Gale) offers full-text access to encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Includes broad cross-curricular collection of non-fiction titles, supporting science, geography, history, language arts, business and other subjects. Optimized for search and discovery, the Gale eBooks platform enables you to search through multiple nonfiction eBooks within a single search.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text Springer ebooks (published from 2005 – 2013) and journals focusing primarily on science, technology and medicine.

Impact of Computer Science Publication

Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science
Impact is estimated using the average citation rate, where citations are normalized using the average citation rate for all articles in a given year, and transformed using ln (n+1) where n is the number of citations.
Scimago Journal & Country Rank
CORE Computer Science Journal Rankings

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Key Resources for Computer Science & Information Systems

Key Ebook Collections for Computer Science

Impact of Computer Science Publication