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Information and Library Science

Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
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LISA abstracts over 300 periodicals from more than 40 countries in the fields of library and information science.
Major areas of coverage include:
Artificial intelligence
Book reviews
CD-ROMs
Computer science applications
Information centres
Information management
Information science
Information storage
Information technology
Internet technology
Knowledge management
Librarianship
Libraries and archives
Library management
Library technology
Library use and users
Medical information
Online information retrieval
Publishing and bookselling
Records management
Telecommunications
Technical services
World Wide Web
ACM Digital Library
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Access to the full-text collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books. Includes access to the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a bibliographic database to computing literature worldwide.
Registered users (click "register" at the top of the page) can create personal binders or sign up for email notifications of table-of-contents for specific ACM titles.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
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References to articles in library and information science journals, some with full-text. Also includes references to proceedings and books.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in selected library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. The full-text of articles from over 170 periodicals as far back as 1997 is also included. In addition to articles, the database indexes books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets.
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 (H.W. Wilson)
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Nearly 80 years of references to articles in library and information science journals, books, book chapters and library school theses. Includes some full text.
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective covers a wide range of subjects: Automation, Care & Restoration of Books, Cataloging, Censorship, Circulation Procedures, Classification, Copyright, Education for Librarianship, Government Aid, Indexing, Information Brokers, Library Associations & Conferences, Library Equipment & Supplies, Personnel Administration, Public Relations, Publishing, Rare Books, and Reference Services.

Use Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective to:

-Research historical information for library school curricula, theses.
-Find information on seminal figures in the evolution of modern librarianship.
-Locate original articles and books by the founders of library science: Melvil Dewey, Jesse Shera, L. Quincy Mumford, S. R Ranganathan, N. K. Krupskaya, and many others.
-Retrace notable controversies in censorship and how they were resolved.
-Explore how yesterday's libraries approached issues of funding, public relations, collection building, and more.
-Examine the effects of historical trends and incidents: war, depression, civil rights, McCarthyism, the Cold War, the women's movement, and more on libraries and librarianship.
Ulrichsweb: Global Serials Directory
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A comprehensive bibliographic database that provides detailed information on more than 300,000 regular and irregularly serials published throughout the world.
This database corresponds to the print Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (title varies), which began in 1932.
WorldCat
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Thousands of libraries may be searched from this one catalog; Interlibrary Loan requests can also be made.
Universal Database of Russian Library and Information Sciences
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The Universal Database of Library Science is the first full-text online database of the most influential professional journals for librarians published mostly in the Russian language.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
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LISTA indexes over 600 periodicals and includes content on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Library Hub Discover
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Catalogues from libraries throughout the United Kingdom, also including Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland.
Books in Print
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Bibliographic database of books in print, electronic, audio, and multimedia titles. It provides a look at what’s active, what’s out of print, and what’s forthcoming from publishers and distributors in the U.S.
The advanced search settings allow you to limit searches by fiction or nonfiction, audience, format, language, price range, year, and more. The database also offers complete information about many publishers as well as short biographies of authors, lists of bestsellers, and awards.
Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
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Provides selected extracts of book reviews as well as citations to additional reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
Collecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this archive database provides over a million book review citations from 1903 to 1982. It includes at least one review excerpt per book.
Monroe County Public Library Catalog
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The catalog of the holdings at Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana.

Computer Science

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Book series, full-text, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, post proceedings, monographs, and distinguished dissertations related to computing.
The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), focuses on new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.
IEEE Xplore
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Includes access to over 4 million full-text documents, including IEEE journals, magazines, conferences, and standards, as well as IET journals, magazines, and conferences.
Resource for research in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and related disciplines. Provides access to content from IEEE as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). IEL contains almost one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science.
ACM Digital Library
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Access to the full-text collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books. Includes access to the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a bibliographic database to computing literature worldwide.
Registered users (click "register" at the top of the page) can create personal binders or sign up for email notifications of table-of-contents for specific ACM titles.
SpringerLINK
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Access to Springer scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works and proceedings. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.
Scopus
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Citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
Covers the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Comprised of 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. Exporting data to Reference Managers such as Mendeley, RefWorks and EndNote, tracking citations with Citation Overview/Tracker, analyzing journal performance with Journal Analyzer and alternative journal impact metrics SNIP and SJR are some of its unique features.
ScienceDirect
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Access to peer-reviewed scholarly scientific, technical and health content from Elsevier. Refine your search by "subscribed journals" to view full text content available to IUB users.
Web of Science
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An interface that allows cross-searching of BIOSIS Previews, Medline, Zoological Record, and Web of Science Core Collection.
Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction
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Provides coverage of everything related to the field of Human Computer Interactions (HCI).
The Encyclopedia covers topics such as concepts, design, usability, evaluation, innovations, and applications of HCI in organizations around the globe. Signed entries include, for example, Automatic Evaluation of Interfaces on the Internet, Automatic Facial Expression Analysis, Case Study on the Development of Broadband Technology in Canada, Cognitive Graphical Walkthrough Interface Evaluation, and Cognitively Informed Multimedia Interface Design. It also contains a compendium of terms, definitions and explanations of concepts, processes and acronyms.

Intelligent Systems Engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Book series, full-text, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, post proceedings, monographs, and distinguished dissertations related to computing.
The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), focuses on new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.
IEEE Xplore
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Includes access to over 4 million full-text documents, including IEEE journals, magazines, conferences, and standards, as well as IET journals, magazines, and conferences.
Resource for research in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and related disciplines. Provides access to content from IEEE as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). IEL contains almost one-third of the world’s current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science.
Films on Demand Master Academic Collection
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Streaming educational video. Covers a wide range of curricular subjects, including history, biology, business and economics, engineering, computer science, technical and trade skills, art and architecture, music and dance, philosophy and religion, geography, environmental science, anthropology, language and literature, mathematics, psychology, sociology, political science, and more.
Includes titles produced by A&E, PBS, BBC Learning, National Geographic, ABC News, NBC News, CNBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, HBO Documentary Films, PBS NewsHour, Open University, Bill Moyers, California Newsreel, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more.
Scopus
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Citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
Covers the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Comprised of 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. Exporting data to Reference Managers such as Mendeley, RefWorks and EndNote, tracking citations with Citation Overview/Tracker, analyzing journal performance with Journal Analyzer and alternative journal impact metrics SNIP and SJR are some of its unique features.
ACM Digital Library
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Access to the full-text collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books. Includes access to the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a bibliographic database to computing literature worldwide.
Registered users (click "register" at the top of the page) can create personal binders or sign up for email notifications of table-of-contents for specific ACM titles.

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