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"Notre Dame Libraries license and pay for access to most of these resources. They are intended for your individual educational use only. Excessive use, such as downloading entire journal issues, is prohibited by contract and may result in loss of access for the entire Notre Dame community." [Acceptable Use Policy]

 Computer Science: 19 Databases


Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1985-
Description: Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for 1,800+ publications (including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed journals). Indexing and abstracts provided for all 3,200+ journals in the collection. Full text information dating as far back as 1985.
Academic Universe
    (Use LexisNexis Academic)
Access Science
Type: Reference
Coverage: Began in 2000?
Description: Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. Also includes over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
Applied Science and Technology Index  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1983-
Description: Indexes international English-language periodicals in applied sciences and technology, including engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, data processing and energy-realted disciplines.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1965-
Description: Comprehensive business database of scholarly journals and business periodicals. Indexes and abstracts more than 4,500 business titles with coverage from 1965; of these, 3,600+ with full text.
Compendex   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Provides access to bibliographic databases of engineering research literature, including Compendex (citations and abstracts to 5000+ engineering journals, conferences and technical reports), as well as to patents, standards and handbooks.
Dissertation Abstracts Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs. Look for and click on the "Free Download" button on the search results screen.
Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting Dissertations); 1988- (Abstracting Theses).
Description: Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Dissertations from all institutions since 1997 have 24-page previews freely available without restriction. Masters theses selectively indexed since 1962. Includes citations for thousands of Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad. Professional (e.g., M.D., LL.D.) and honorary degrees not included.
EBSCOhost  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.
Ei-Compendex
    (Use Compendex)
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Type: Reference
Description: Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (tenth edition), and the Britannica book of the year.
Expanded Academic ASAP  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,000+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.
General Science Abstracts  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1984-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to general scientific literature.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
IEEE Conference Proceedings
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1998-
INSPEC (SilverPlatter)   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering & computer science.
Journal Citation Reports on the Web (Science Ed. & Social Sciences Ed.)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1999-2001
Description: Resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide, showing the relationship between citing and cited journals.
LexisNexis Academic
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
MathSciNet   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1940-
The period between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time is reserved for maintenance. MathSciNet may be unavailable during that period.
Description: Consists of reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and related areas compiled from: Mathematical reviews, and: Current mathematical publications, 1940-
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology
    (Use Access Science)
NetLibrary E-book Collection
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: A collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.
Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.
PapersFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to papers presented at conferences worldwide, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993.
ProceedingsFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to worldwide conference proceedings, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993; citations include listing of papers presented at those conferences.
Science Citation Index Expanded
    (Use Web of Science)
Web of Science   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: "... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.
Users: Licensed for 8 simultaneous users; please be sure to 'logout' so others may 'login.'
Acknowledgment: Special thanks to the Graduate School and the Provost's Office for their generous support in helping the University Libraries make this acquisition possible.
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