Article Databases and Other Resources in Computer Science  

This page lists some of the resources that provide journal articles, e-prints, background information, technical reports, and other kinds of information. Please also look at the resources listed on the Computer Science list on the Library's page of databases By Subject.

• Encyclopedias -- for finding background information
• Databases -- for finding journal articles and conference papers 
        [what's a conference paper?]
• Series -- e.g, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
• Technical Reports -- narrowly focused reports that cannot be found through most regular information sources

Encyclopedias -- Use these to get background information.

AccessScience -- A general science encyclopedia that is continually updated. In addition to encyclopedia articles it includes definitions, study guides, and more. From the home page, you can choose "Computing & Information Technology," or you can type your specific keywords into the search box.

AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill : The Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology  (All US JHU)

Encyclopedia of Imaging science and technology  (All US JHU)

Encyclopedia of Software Engineering -- Includes information about software engineering ethics, licensing and certification, education and training in software engineering, and related fields such as mathematics, information technology, process improvement, and even biographies of important people in the field.

Encyclopedia of software engineering  (All US JHU)

Databases -- Use these to find journal articles and papers from conference proceedings. 

ACM Digital Library -- Contains the full text of articles from Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals and newsletters, and papers from conference proceedings. All ACM publications are covered from Volume 1, Number 1.

ACM Digital Library   (All JHU (incl. International))

Citeseer -- CiteSeer contains documents from the open web about computer and information science. It also automatically creates a citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation. CiteSeer has many links to full text, including ACM papers.

IEEE Xplore -- IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) transactions, journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988. It also includes some content back to 1950, and all current IEEE Standards.

IEEE Xplore  (All US JHU)

Inspec -- Inspec is the main database for journal article citations and abstracts in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, and production engineering. Inspec contains citations to journal articles in about 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings, and many books, dissertations, and reports, from 1969 to the present.

INSPEC  (All US JHU)

Rexa -- Launched in April 2006, Rexa is a digital library covering computer science research and researchers. According to the Rexa blog, the main advantage over CiteSeer and other search engines is "that Rexa knows about more first-class, de-duplicated, cross-referenced object types: not only papers and their citation links, but also people, grants, topics---and in the future universities, conferences, journals, research communities, and more."

• Browse by citations, authors, co-authors, cited authors, or citing authors
• Cross-linking for papers, authors, topics and NSF grants
• Automatically gathers contact info and photos of author

SPIE Digital Library -- The SPIE Digital Library on optics and photonics contains over 175,000 research articles from 1990 forward. It includes technical papers from SPIE journals and conference proceedings, including
-- Proceedings of SPIE (from volume 3245, 1988)
-- Optical Engineering (from volume 37, 1998)
-- Journal of Electronic Imaging (from volume 7, 1998)
-- Journal of Biomedical Optics (from volume 3, 1998) 
-- Journal of Microlithography, Microfabrication, and Microsystems (from volume 1, 2002)

SPIE Digital Library  (All US JHU)

Series 

Lecture Notes in Computer Science -- LNCS provides the full text of most volumes beginning from volume 149 (1983) to the present. They contain papers from the most important computer security conferences including CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, and ASIACRYPT. 

LNCS also includes a sub-series entitled Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, which began in the mid-1980's. Among the subjects it covers are automated reasoning, algorithms, machine vision, robotics, natural-language processing, and agent-based systems. 

Please note that papers from LNCS and its sub-series can be searched in GeoRef, Inspec, and MathSciNet, but not in Web of Science.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science  (All US JHU)

Computer Science Librarian: Sue Vazakas, 410-516-4153, svazakas@jhu.edu
Last revised:  December 29, 2005