For Starters |
FREE Citation Management Software |
- RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
- For off campus use, get the York group code here.
- FAQ and Instructions for various databases
- RefWorks Tutorial
- Zotero and Mendeley are other options
- Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page
General Information |
- Unlimited free Interlibrary Loan articles via RACER!
- Using the UofT library system
- General library-related Grad student info.
- 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.
- Some interesting articles/posts on CS scholarly publishing
- 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.
Logging in from Home |
- Need to use Acadlabs login to authenticate as a York user
- Information here on logging in
- Remember: need to type in name of eresource using “by title” link after logging in.
Finding Resources at the Library |
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: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel
processing - by keyword: concurrent and programming and java
Finding Articles |
These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.
Article Citation Databases
- INSPEC — best source for citations in all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches (combined with Compendex)
- concurrent and aerospace and programming
- concurrent and locking and java
- Web of Science — Very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for citation searches
- concurrent and locking and java
- Scopus — another good general database with citation information
- ACM Guide to Computing Literature — Another one focusing on computing
- Scholars Portal Journals — very general, lots of obscure journals
- VERY IMPORTANT: look in full text article databases for conference
proceedings
- IEEE, ACM or Lecture Notes in Computer Science: look in DBs below
- SPIE: keyword search in catalogue: SPIE and proceeding #
- Other: keyword search with part of title
- Last resort: 50-75% of conference papers usually on author’s home pages
- Remember, you have 50 free article requests!
Full Text Article Databases
- ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
- IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
- SPIE Digital Library — has all the SPIE Proceedings and journals in full text
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science — Also includes LN in Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Physics, and other areas. Source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science or INSPEC
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
- Books24x7 — EngineeringPro & ITPro
Resources on Where to Publish
- Citation tracking & journal “impact”
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- Google Scholar
- Journal Citation Reports
- Papers Invited (conferences looking for submissions)
- Open Access publishers where the library subsidizes author fees
- Other Open Access resources
- York Libraries Open Access Guide
- arxiv
- Pubmed Central
- Pubmed Central Canada (CIHR policy)
- York Space
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Sherpa/Romeo for figuring out publisher OA posting policies
Using Resources on the Internet |
Using the Internet Wisely |
- Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
- example: concurrent programming
- example: concurrent programming locking
- example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
- example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
- strategy: find good portal sites
- strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
- 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 102L
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
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