CompSci 498 

Welcome to the CompSci 498 page covering library resources that help you find information related to computer science.  Besides the content on this page, which covers article databases, notice the tabs at the top of this page will take you to additional content.  Links to key Library resources are listed in the box below this.

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Computer Science Subject Guide

To access additional article databases, or to access these through the Library's main article databases page:

• Go to the Library's home page, http://library.boisestate.edu,
• Click the "Find...Articles, Databases" link located in the top, left grouping,
• Click on the first letter of the article database name (A for ACM Digital Library) in the grouping under "Databases by Name",
• Click on the article database name.

Periodical Articles and Conference Papers
Article databases are specialized resources for locating journal articles.  They allow you to search the published literature for articles by keywords, subjects, authors and other parameters.  Some databases include other types of materials besides journal articles, such as papers from conference proceedings (meetings) and dissertations.  There are many different article databases; each has a different scope and therefore will contain descriptions to articles in different journals.  Other terms for article databases include repositories, indexes and abstracts.  Repositories contain the full-text content from a specific publisher, or from several publishers.  Indexes contain information about where a journal article was published, and usually associate articles with subject categories.  Abstracts are similar to indexes, but contain a summary of the article (called an abstract).  In an index or an abstract, full-text articles are sometimes available, but often finding the full-text will require additional steps. 

New developments and current research are often first presented as conference papers and/or periodical articles.  You will also find literature reviews, descriptions of methodology, or information on innovations in or applications of particular processes, systems and devices.  Literature reviews are particularly helpful in finding past research on a specific topic. 

Periodical Articles and Conference Papers: Repositories

ACM Digital Library
A repository of materials published by ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery including to the journal, magazine, transactions, and conference proceedings titles. 

IEEE Xplore
This repository contains materials published by IEEE, the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, and IET, the Institution of Engineering and Technology.  The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) includes full-text access to IEEE Society-sponsored transactions and conference proceedings (including the IEEE Computer Society), IET proceedings journals, IET conference proceedings and IEEE Standards.  Most coverage begins with 1988 but some content is available from earlier dates.

Periodical Articles and Conference Papers: Indexes

ACM Guide to Computing Literature
An index to publications from over 3,000 publishers of journals, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, master’s theses, and technical reports, this source includes ACM Digital Library materials as well as additional references. To search the ACM Guide, first click on ACM Digital Library, then click on the radio button next to “The Guide” (above the search text box).

Compendex and Inspec (1898-current)
Compendex covers periodical articles and conference papers for all engineering disciplines, from 1969-current.  Over 5000 serials are included, this is a good source for current and past research. 

INSPEC primarily covers periodical articles and conference papers (1898-current) but also includes some books, dissertations and reports.  Over 4000 serials covering topics in computers and control, electrical engineering, physics, and manufacturing are included.  

Compendex and INSPEC are searched jointly on the Engineering Village Platform.  To search only one of the databases, on the advanced search page, remove the check in the box to the left of the database you do not wish to search by clicking on the box.  The check mark will be removed and that database will not be searched.

Web of Science (1900-current)
This index includes article information from approximately 8,500 journals in sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts and humanities.  The main purpose of this index is the cited reference search, which searches for the articles that have cited a particular author’s work, or a specific article.