Databases/Article Indexes for Information Systems and Technology


Red Star indicates highly recommended databases for the subject area

 
The ACM (Association for Computing machinery) Digital Library includes abstracts, reviews, and the full-text articles published in ACM periodicals, transactions, and proceedings since 1985.
Recommended resource
Collection of over 750,000 bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and 3,000+ other publishers.
 
Offers full-text of the publications, conferences, and resource archives of the 34 ACM Special Interest Groups.
 
Applied Science & Technology Full Text: Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

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Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields. Includes interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, discussions, corrections, continued articles, new product reviews, new product announcements, technically valuable editorials and letters, tables, charts, diagrams, buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
 
Provides access to seven decades of information from the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field - many of them peer-reviewed journals. Contains the complete content of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983).
 
Books24x7
Current

5 concurrent users maximum.
Search, browse and view fulltext of nearly 5000 books covering IT and systems.
 
Burton Group IT Research
Current

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In-depth reports on IT products and technology areas. Core Reference Architecture documents give terse but thorough groundwork, updated annually with Methodology and Best Practices reports written for lead developers and IT department managers. Includes templates and powerpoints for communicating with upper management. Drexel licenses three Burton Group content areas: Content and Collaboration Strategies (CCS) Data Center Strategies (DCS), Identity and Privacy Strategies (IdPS).
 
CiteSeer.IST
1997-current

Open Access
CiteSeer.IST is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.
 
Emerald Insight is an electronic collection of journals published by MCB University Press and includes upwards of 50,000 articles from over 160 journals.
Recommended resource
Provides IT company and process information, and offers several different report types.
 
Reports data monthly covering facility security, IT and network security, financial and legal security, business continuity, risk and crisis management, personnel security, and more.
 
Gartner's research covers a range of global IT issues, presented in the form of reports, briefings, updates and related tools.
 
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
1975 - present

5 concurrent users maximum.
describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. The database integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
 
IEEE Xplore
1988-current

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Provides full-text access to all IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.
 
INFOSECURITYnetBASE includes over 55 fully-searchable ebooks in the area of information security and information science.
 
INSPEC
1896-current
Bibliographic database providing access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering.
Recommended resource
Report the latest results from all areas of computer science and information technology research, development, and education.
Recommended resource
Safari Tech Books
Current editions

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Search, browse and view full contents of hundreds of books from major technology publishers.
 
SYNTHESIS is an information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science.

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