For Starters |
FREE Citation Management Softwa |
- Zotero, Del.icio.us, CiteULike and Connotea are options
- Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page
General Information |
- Good hacker article in wikipedia. (for a topic like hacking, Wikipedia is a pretty good source)
- Scientific publication cycle
- Knee, Michael, “Internet Reference Sources for Computing and Computer Science: A Selected Guide,” Journal of Library Administration, 44(1/2) 2006: 453-473.
- Kinds of documents:
- patents: government granted license to an invention
- standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
- journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
- conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
(most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed) - technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
- books
- reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
- manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
- monographs: general topics
- technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie
circuit diagrams - code library: database of source code listings or linkable
subroutines
- Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
- Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
- If you’re not sure how to get started on your project, come to Steacie.
Finding Resources at the Library |
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Finding Books & Journals |
- Do a search in The York Catalogue:
- by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
- by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
- by journal title: journal of the acm
- by subject: Java
- by subject: computer security
- by keyword (for books and articles):
- linux and security
- hackers
- hackers and credit card
- hackers and medical
- hackers and health care
- hackers and hospital
- medical and records and security
- medical and records and privacy
- medical and records and canada
Finding Articles |
These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.
Full Text Article Databases
- ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
- IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science — source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science
- Computer Database — good for computer trade magazones
- ABI/Inform and Business Source Premier –both have lots of business/IT articles in full text
- Research Library
- Canadian Newsstand, Canadian Periodical Index provide good news and current events coverage
Online Computer Books
- Safari — over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.
- Synthesis — amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics
Using Resources on the Internet |
Using the Internet Wisely |
- Wikipedia — good source for tech topics, but only as a starting place for information
- Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
- searches:
- computer security resources
- computer security medical records
- data privacy hospitals
- strategy: find good portal sites
- strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
- searches:
- A good computer security blog: Bruce Schneier
- Very good US government site: NIST Computer Security Resource Center
- Some edgier resources: secureroot
- EDUCAUSE site on Higher Ed
- DBLP — good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
- Citeseer — indexes the free web but a bit out of date
- Computing Research Repository (CoRR) — eprints and other online papers
- Collection of Computer Science bibliographies
- Google Scholar
- And others…
To contact me:
Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
Also I’m on FaceBook and Friendfeed. The Steacie Library is also on Facebook.
