Sometimes you will need to look up words or get some basic information before you are able to fully understand the articles you are reading in scientific journals. Using these encyclopedias and dictionaries can help to get your research started. Some of the titles listed below are only available in PRINT, and may be found in the REFERENCE section on the main floor of Cornell Library (under QA76).
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Computer Science 015 : FYS: Privacy & Trust (SC)
Finding Definitions & Background Information:
AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
Full-text access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily.
Berkshire encyclopedia of human-computer interaction
Publisher: Great Barrington, Mass. : Berkshire Pub. Group, c2004.
Ref QA76 .9 .H85B46 2004 v. 1 & 2
Encyclopedia of computer science and technology
Publisher: New York, NY : Facts On File, c2003.
Ref QA76 .15 .H43 2003
Finding Books:
Computer books are found in the QA76 section of the library, but for this class you will most likely be finding books under lots of different call numbers. Many of the topics for this class may be covered in e-books supplied by eBrary. If you are trying to access these books on your own computer you will need to load the eBrary software.
Finding Journal Articles:
You should be able to find what you need for your CS15 papers and assignments here at Swarthmore. If you are having difficulty finding materials here, please talk to your professor or drop by the Science Librarian's office and talk to Meg Spencer. And look for the 
button to link you to the online article, if we have access to it.
If you are planning to do any research off-campus, you will need to log in to EZ-PROXY, which is Swarthmore's proxy server. Once you have logged in through the proxy server, your access to IP-linked resources will be allowed.
button to link you to the online article, if we have access to it.If you are planning to do any research off-campus, you will need to log in to EZ-PROXY, which is Swarthmore's proxy server. Once you have logged in through the proxy server, your access to IP-linked resources will be allowed.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Always a good place to begin your research! Covers 1971-present.
LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current)
ACM Digital Library
Provides access to the Association of Computing Machinery's journals and other resources including conference proceedings, newsletters and transactions. Includes computer science and related disciplines. Covers 1969-present.
IEEE Computer Society digital library
Provider: IEEE
Provides online access to society magazines and transactions and selected conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Covers 1988-present.
CiteSeer
A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. There is also a Computer Science Directory.
EEVL: E-journal Search Engine: Computing
Searches the content of over 60 free full-text computing e-journals.
Google scholar
Use this IN ADDITION to library-provided databases, as there is a lot that is NOT included in Google Scholar. But - it also often digs up good stuff that the other databases don't! Use the "Check Tripod" and "Find it @ Swarthmore" links to see if we have access to full text.
Finding Web Sites:
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Activism for civil liberties in issues such as internet censorship, internet governance, malicious interference.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
A non-profit, non-partisan organization working to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, which opposes patents and copyrights as a violation of freedom of speech.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
EPIC is a public interest research center. Tracks news and legislation on First Amendment, and constitutional issues of privacy.
Open Directory Project: Computers+Security+Organizations
Scirus
A web search engine devoted to Science & Technology, which can often give better, more targeted results than Google.
Note: You can turn on the FIND IT! button in Scirus by going to SEARCH PREFERENCES. Select ENABLE next to ‘Library Partner Links’, then select Swarthmore College Library from the drop-down menu. Then select the SAVE PREFERENCES button.
Note: You can turn on the FIND IT! button in Scirus by going to SEARCH PREFERENCES. Select ENABLE next to ‘Library Partner Links’, then select Swarthmore College Library from the drop-down menu. Then select the SAVE PREFERENCES button.
Wikipedia
InterLibrary Loan & TriCollege Borrowing:
While Cornell Library has a really good collection, obviously there will be times when we don't actually own something you've located in your research. That is when you'll need to borrow from other libraries and to do this you will need Inter-Library Loan (ILL).
Tri-College ILL - BOOKS: If you want a book from Bryn Mawr or Haverford, simply press the REQUEST button at the top of the Tripod screen. Enter your name & barcode, and select WHERE you want to pick up the book. Delivery takes approximately one day library to library.
Non-TriCollege ILL - BOOKS: For books NOT available in Tripod, try E-Z Borrow and request books directly from nearby Pennsylvania & NJ libraries. Books usually arrive within a few days.
JOURNAL ARTICLES: For articles in journals not available from the main libraries in TriCo*, use the online ILL form. You must put the COMPLETE JOURNAL TITLE in your request - do not use abbreviations, or your request will most likely be sent back to you. For complete journal titles, check the book behind the Circulation Desk, or go to Journal Abbreviation Sources.
* Journals DO circulate from main libraries, so if you need an article from a non-science library journal, place a hold on the actual journal volume in Tripod and it will be sent via TriCo van!
Citing Your Resources:
Duke University Citation Guide
For online information on CITING information, check out this online guide. It gives examples of different citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago & Turabian) for both print & electronic resources.