Hekman Library: Computer Science: Home

How Things Work: The Computer Science Edition

English for Electronics and Computer Science

Programming Languages and Operational Semantics

Recommended Databases

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)
Full-text repository of all ACM publications.

The Digital Library contains the full-text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. as well as bibliographic information for articles produced by other computing publishers.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is digital library for computer and information science literature.

Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerX attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerX has developed new methods and algorithms to index PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web.
Web of Science
Indexes top journals in sciences, social sciences, humanities.
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development info.

From the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), OSTI.GOV makes discoverable decades of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.

Subjects covered include biology and medicine, fission and nuclear technologies, national defense, chemistry, fossil fuels, physics, energy storage, geosciences, power generation and distribution, engineering, renewable energy sources, mathematics and computing, and environmental sciences.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore database for engineering, computing, and electronics scholarly literature.

Recommended Web Sources

Introduction to the History of Computing
Tracing the story of computing, this reference resource provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of computing.
Giants of Computing
An accessible compendium providing insight into the great minds responsible for the technology which has transformed our lives. Each pioneer is introduced with a brief biography, followed by a concise account of their key contributions to their discipline.
Limits of Computation: from a programming perspective
This book discusses the most fundamental and puzzling questions about the foundations of computing.
Adventures in Computer Science
The main focus of this book is the basic unit of information and the way in which our understanding of this has evolved over time.

Tips for Searching

Looking to discover more? Try browsing the shelves on the 5th floor in these call number sections:

Call Number	Subject
QA75	Computers
QA76	Software
TK7885-7895	Computer Engineering

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