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Computer Science Databases

ACM Digital Library (ACM) This link opens in a new window
A full-text database of journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery.

INSPEC
Indexes scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computer science, and information technology.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Covers the spectrum of applied sciences, including engineering, computers, and technology, as well as the social and business contexts of new technology.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1900-present
Includes books, journal articles, and conference proceedings from across all scientific disciplines and provides comprehensive citation searching. Also includes coverage articles in Social Sciences (1900-present) and Arts & Humanities (1975-present).

INSPEC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals and conference proceedings, primarily from physics, computer science, and electrical engineering. Also includes some physical chemistry (1898-present).
Computer Source (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for approximately 300 journals and consumer computer magazines.
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Maintained by the American Mathematical Society. Includes reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

arXiv
Houses pre-publication copies of papers in many disciplines, including physics, astronomy, mathematics, computer science, and statistics.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window Coverage: 1900-present Includes books, journal articles, and conference proceedings from across all scientific disciplines and provides comprehensive citation searching. Also includes coverage articles in Social Sciences (1900-present) and Arts & Humanities (1975-present).
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Publication Dates: 1887 to present. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, including more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Provides indexing for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications, including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
JSTOR (ITHAKA) This link opens in a new window JSTOR includes scholarship published in more than 1,500 of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The content represents archives of the journal titles back to volume 1 but not including the most recent 3-5 years.

Google Scholar
Finds scholarly sources across the web. You may find different types of sources compared to traditional databases, but search tools are limited.
Internet Archive Scholar
Search the Internet Archive's vast collections to find scholarly articles that may no longer be openly accessible on the web.
RefSeek
Searches the web for academic pages or documents. RefSeek also provides a nice directory of online reference sources.