Journal Articles:

Common Database Choices

• Academic Search Premier (many full-text) All subjects. [INFO and SLIDECAST TUTORIAL]
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, and IV (full-text backfiles) [INFO] [Tutorial]
• SciFinder: First time? Register with your PSU email address, or login to SciFinder. Please note: Due to the nature of SciFinder, it is not currently available from off campus.
• Web of Knowledge [INFO]

Database Choices for Special Topics

• Dissertation Abstracts Online
• FirstSearch (Ask at Reference Desk for password) [INFO]
• FirstSearch journal titles list
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (links to full-text) [INFO]

News, Analysis, and Opinion:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• CQ Researcher (all full-text) [INFO]
• LexisNexis Academic (business/law/reference; all full-text) [INFO]
• New York Times 1980-present
• New York Times Digital Archive, 1851- (all full-text) [INFO]
• Newspaper Source (mostly full-text) [INFO]
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (all full-text) [INFO]
• Regional Business News (many full-text) [INFO]
• Union Leader/NH Sunday News (all full-text) [INFO]
• Wall Street Journal 1984-present

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Reference:

• Credo reference (all full-text) [INFO]
• Encyclopaedia Britannica (all full-text) [INFO]
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia [INFO]
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (Reference E-books) [INFO]
• Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (Gale EBook)
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (all full-text) [INFO]

Web Sites:

• Google Directory — Computer Science

• Librarians’ Internet Index –  Computers

• Cnet
• Donald E. Knuth
• Download.com (CNET)
• IEEE Computer Society
• Microsoft
• Programmer’s Heaven
• The Programming Pages
• Sun Microsystems
• TechRepublic
• WWW Computer Architecture Page
• Wikipedia

Browse Journals:

Check the Journal List

Selected Journals by Title

• ACM computing surveysACM Queue
• ACM transactions on computer systems (print only)
• ACM Transactions on Database Systems
• ACM transactions on graphics (print only)
• ACM transactions on information systems (print only)
• ACM transactions on information systems (print only)
• ACM transactions on modeling and computer simulation (print only)
• ACM transactions on programming languages and systems (print only)
• Association for Computing Machinery (Journal)

• Byte.com (see Dr. Dobb’s Journal)

• Computer Graphics World
• The Computer Journal
• Computer (IEEE Computer Society) (print only)
• Computers & Society (requires subscription)
• ComputerWorld: Newsweekly for information Technology Leaders

• Dr. Dobb’s Journal: software tools for the professional programmer

• eWEEK: The Enterprise Newsweekly

• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (print only)
• IEEE Transaction of Professional Communication
• Information Today: The Newspaper for Users and Producers of electronic Information Services
• InfoWorld: Defining Technology for Business

• Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery

• MacWorld: The Macintosh Magazine for the Network Professional

• PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to Personal Computing and the Internet
• PC World

• SIAM Journal on Computing

• Wired

[Note: This is only a partial list. To find access to other journals by title, use the A-Z Journal List.]

Journals by Subject

• Instruments and machines (Link to the Journal List)
  

Check the Journal List

Books:

Searching Library Catalogs

• Catalog

• Google Books

• WorldCat

Library of Congress Classification System

[Note:  To find books about the use of computers in specific fields, do a Subject search in the library catalog and include the subject of interest -- "Searching Library Catalogs" above.  For example, Computers and Art.  The following Library of Congress Classification Numbers refer only to books about computer science and computer science programming.]

Consult the Library of Congress Classification system to find areas to browse in the general collection or in the reference section.

• Library of Congress Classification
• Library of Congress Classification:Class A — General Works
• Library of Congress Classification:Class B — Philosophy Psychology Religion
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class C — Auxiliary Sciences of History
• Library of Congress Classification:Class D — History General and Old World
• Library of Congress Classification:Class E — History of America
• Library of Congress Classification:Class F — Local History of the United States and Latin America
• Library of Congress Classification:Class G — Geography Anthropology Recreation
• Library of Congress Classification:Class H — Social Sciences
• Library of Congress Classification:Class J — Political Science
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class K — Law
• Library of Congress Classification:Class L — Education
• Library of Congress Classification:Class M — Music
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class N — Fine Arts
• Library of Congress Classification:Class P — Language and Literature
• Library of Congress Classification:Class Q — Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class S — Agriculture
• Library of Congress Classification:Class T — Technology
• Library of Congress Classification:Class U — Military Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class V — Naval Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class Z — Bibliography Library Science Information Resources

QA. Mathematics

• QA 76. Computer Science
• QA 76.625. Internet Programming
• QA 76.73. Programming Languages
  • QA 76.73.J38. Java
  • QA 76.73.J39. JavaScript
• QA 76.76. Computer Software, special topics
  • QA 76.76.H94. Hypertext. HTML
  • QA 76.76.H94. RSS
  • QA 76.76.O63. Operating Systems. Unix
• QA 76.9. Computer Science, other topics
  • QA 76.9.D3. Databases
  • QA 76.9.W43. Web Databases

Associations:

• Google Directory — Science — Computer Science — Organizations

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association)
• ASIS&T The American Society for Information Science & Technology
• Association for Computers and the Humanities
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Association for Information and Image Management
• AIS (Association for Information Systems)
• Association for Women in Computing (AWC)
• Association of Computer Professionals
• AICS - Association of Independent Computer Specialists
• Association of Independent Information Professionals

• COMMON - A Users Group
• Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
• The Computing Technology Industry Association

• The IEEE Computer Society
• Independent Computer Consultants Association
• Information Systems Audit and Control Association
• Information Technology Association of America
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• International Association for Computer Information Systems

• The Society For Computer Simulation International
• SIM - Society for Information Management
• Software & Information Industry Association - SIIA
  
• World Organization of Webmasters