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ACM Digital Library Portal
The ACM Digital Library Portal provides access to the ACM Digital Library and the Guide to Computing Literature. The Digital Library consists of full-text of all the publications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This includes journals, transactions and magazines, conference proceedings, and the SIG (Special Interest Groups) publications.
The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and over 3000 other computer science publishers. Included in the Guide are citations to books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, and technical reports.
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore® digital library features journals, conferences and standards from IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) as well as the UK’s IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology). IEEE Xplore contains almost one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications and computer science as well as literature in robotics, biomedical engineering, systems engineering and other related engineering and computer science topics including multi-media. There is unlimited, full-text PDF access to more than 2 million documents from over 1.7 million authors. This includes 149 IEEE journals, magazines and transactions, 23 IET journal and magazines, proceedings from over 900 IEEE and IET annual conferences, and 2,000 approved and published IEEE standards in key technology areas.
Compendex
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database. Provides citations and abstracts from periodicals, conference proceedings and other sources in many fields including mechanical, civil, chemical, computer and electrical engineering, as well as engineering management.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost )
Provides citations and abstracts to over 4,000 journals covering most academic areas of study including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and women’s studies. Approximately two-thirds of the articles are available as full text. Also contains images which can be accessed by clicking on the “image collections” icon.
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
Indexes and provides citations and abstracts to periodical articles covering engineering, math, physics, computer technology and other sciences.
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