Clark Family Library: Computing and Information Studies: Find Articles

Why use articles?

Academic articles are good resources because:

They provide information about specific and recent topics
They include bibliographies to refer you to additional information
Many articles are scholarly or peer-reviewed, meaning they have been critically reviewed by experts to ensure they are of highest quality and especially suitable for academic resources.

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EBSCO Discovery Service

Use EBSCO Discovery Service to search all of the Library's databases at once.

Enter key words in the search box
After you press 'search', use filters on the left to refine results to include journal articles, full-text, and, if desired, scholarly/peer-reviewed
Click on the title to access the full text

Discovery

Discovery searches ALL of the Library resources!

Databases

See Databases A-Z to search for databases. Most databases are paid for by the library, but some are freely available to all.

Specific databases to try include:

CiteSeerx
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
Computing Research Repository
Through a partnership of ACM, the arXiv.org e-print archive, and NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library), an online Computing Research Repository (CoRR) has been established. The CoRR is available to all members of the community at no charge.

ScienceDirect
Covers about 2,600 peer-reviewed journals in medicine, health, life sciences, psychology, arts, humanities, education, business, economics, and social sciences. Most articles are full-text. Use Advanced Search mode. Elsevier.

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Academic Search Ultimate
Offers full-text access to over 12,000 journals, including more than 10,000 peer-reviewed titles. A great database to start your research
MathSciNet
American Mathematical Society provides this searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. AMS.
Project Muse: Basic Undergraduate Collection
Collection of heavily indexed and peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Database includes 340 full-text journals from 80 scholarly publishers from 1995 to present. MUSE.

Journals

Examples of e-journals in this discipline include:

Journal of Computer Mediated Communications
This peer-reviewed, scholarly journal contains articles about social science research on communicating with computer-based media technologies.
Social Science Computer Review
This peer-reviewed, scholarly journal contains articles on social science instructional and research applications of computing, as well as societal impacts of information technology.

Browsing or searching journals is useful when you already have a specific topic/focus for your research. For example, if you are researching slavery you might want to take a look at the journal titled Civil War History.

Using the Find Information drop down menu on the Library's homepage:

Click the Find Journals link
A new window will open with a search box.
Enter the title of the journal
Click Search
Retrieve a list showing all available formats for the journal
For online access click the link
Find print journals in the Current Periodical section
Find microfilm behind the Research Services Desk
Get access to print journals located in storage by completing this form: Bound Journal Storage Request

Need Help? Ask at the User Services or Research Services desks!

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Search Google Scholar with keywords to find citations and some full text articles.

Look for the "Find Full-Text" link to the right of the citation.

Click the link to retrieve the full text of the article from our Library's databases.