This page of resources is general enough to be used by ALL Computer Science courses being taught at Swarthmore. It lists some of the more basic print resources, and databases for different levels of study. Speak to your professor or to Meg about the appropriateness of the resources for your course.
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If you plan to use ENDNOTE WEB for this class (or any class), you will need to create your own account. Go to the Endnote Web site and register as a new user. You will need to create a password, and then you will be able to access your stored citations whenever you log in to the site.
Finding Definitions & Background Information:
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.
Print Reference Titles
Concise encyclopedia of computer science
Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Wiley, c2004.
Cornell Ref QA76 .15 .C654 2004
Dictionary of computer vision and image processing
Publisher: Chichester ; Wiley, c2005.
Cornell Ref TA1634 .D53 2005
Handbook of geometric computing
Publisher: Berlin ; Springer, 2005.
Cornell Reference QA448 .D38 2005
The human-computer interaction handbook
Publisher: New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008.
Cornell Ref QA76 .9 .H85 H8568 2008
The Internet
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
Cornell Ref TK5105 .875 .I57I5372 2005 v. 1-3
Electronic Reference Titles
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.
A Dictionary of Computing
Also available in PRINT: Cornell Ref QA76 .15 .D526 2008
Wikipedia
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.
Ebrary
Academic Complete includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers, including life and physical sciences (2,400 titles). It spans all subjects.
Note: If you plan to PRINT from eBrary titles, you will be restricted to printing only TWENTY pages at a time, and FORTY pages in one session. If you need to print more than forty pages, you will need to close the browser & then open a new window (but copy the URL of the e-Book before you close, so you can paste it into the new browser window).
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
Search beyond Tripod! Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.
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.
Google scholar
Google Scholar often digs up good resources that the other databases don't. So it is a good database to use in addition to the others. Use the "Check Tripod" and "Find it @ Swarthmore" links to see if we have access to full text.
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.
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.
Electronic Journal & Proceedings Collections
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.
ScienceDirect
Provides full-text,online access to journal articles in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full-text is available only for journals to which the TriColleges subscribe. Full-text access for most journals goes back to 1993. Abstracts are available for non-subscribed journals.
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.