| Finding Books | Journals, Proceedings & Dissertations |
| Finding Articles | Encyclopedias & Reference Works |
| IT Industry Advisor Reports |
Finding Books
| Searching the catalog for books on information systems and technology: | ||
| Try a keyword search: | information systems AND java | |
| Try a subject search: | Information Science — Moral And Ethical Aspects | |
| OR search Safari Tech Books collection full-text: | Safari Tech Books | |
| Special Tip: Search just examples of code using the “advanced search” feature in Safari Tech Books – it covers O’Reilly Media books among others. | ||
Finding Articles
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ACM Digital Library & Guide to Computing Literature — ELECTRONIC Two separate products from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). The Digital Library includes abstracts, reviews, and the full-text of articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. The Guide to Computing Literature has abstracts-only of non-ACM computing literature and (through SFX) often links to full-text. Covers many computing-oriented information science topics. |
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| Engineering Village – ELECTRONIC Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database with excellent coverage of software engineering, and computer engineering. Has over eight million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings. Use SFX for full-text links. |
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| Lecture Notes in Computer Science — ELECTRONIC Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) publishes hundreds of conference proceedings every year with new developments in computer science and information technology research. Includes the series in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Bioinformatics (LNBI). If a proceeding is not in ACM, then it’s here in LNCS. Content goes back to 1973. |
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Proquest — ELECTRONIC This multidisciplinary source often covers business aspects of technical issues. Easy to navigate and broad scope. |
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| ScienceDirect – ELECTRONIC A deep and diverse collection of journals from publishing giant Elsevier, includes many computing titles. |
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| Web of Science –ELECTRONIC This abstract-only source covers high impact library and information science journals as well as most other academic topics. Through its citation tracking, ranking and sorting features you can quickly identify seminal papers of interest and, through SFX links, find full-text. Try the various “analyze” features. |
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IT Industry Advisor Reports
| Burton Group IT Research – MEDIATED RETRIEVAL – (select reports from links below & email siftar at drexel dot edu ) Tactically focused to keep IT managers ahead of the curve on new developments, ranging between 25-50 pages. They offer in-depth reports on both products and technology areas, using what they call a “Reference Architecture”—or a decision-making framework. These are not to be missed for anyone doing software selections or facing a buy VS. build decision. Drexel’s license includes access to four of the six content areas offered by Burton Group:
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| Faulkners Advisory for IT Studies –ELECTRONIC Short, basic overviews covering fundamental aspects of information technologies, the companies behind them and current topics in the industry. Offers nine report types such as “standards” and “selection guide” to support applied IT research and decision-making. Best basic definitions for technical level work. |
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| Faulkners Security Management Practices — ELECTRONIC The special release from Faulkners includes both the IT and business practice aspects of security in a comprehensive, yet accessible collection of reports, articles, book chapters and other content. Best holistic approach to security. |
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Gartner Research Portal –ELECTRONIC Gartner is the global leader in providing accurate and current research for the IT industry. With a primary focus on the large enterprise, Gartner offers help to translating complex IT issues to comprehensive advice and meaningful analysis through the combined brainpower of 1,200 research analysts and consultants. Their reports, such as the catchy “magic quadrant” graphs summarize loads of nuts-and-bolts detail and are perfect when making your proposal to a tough customer. With the new portal access you can set up personalized alerts for up-to-the-minute coverage on topics of interest, as well as their full backfile. This is easily the best strategic, high-level offering we have. Worth getting to know well via their quickstart guide, or introductory video. |
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Journals, Proceedings & Dissertations
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Journals Search the titles of Drexel’s journals for keywords such as: information science or information technology Then browse the holdings of those individual journals, or search again within each journal for your topic. |
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| Proceedings Research presented at conferences is often more cutting edge than what gets published in journals. Find information science conference proceedings in LNCS, ACM Digital Library, ERIC and also in the multidisciplinary Papers First – a world-wide index to papers of conferences and meetings received at the British Library. Other finding aides include an index to the full meetings themselves Proceedings First or the global library catalog WorldCat that can help verify details before ordering hard-to-find items through the Library link to Borrow from Other Libraries for inter-libarary loan. |
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| Digital Dissertations The most comprehensive source for student theses. Dissertations from 1980 forward have 350-word abstracts. Citations for master’s theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. All titles published since 1997 are available in in PDF format and have 24 page previews available. Drexel dissertations are available in full text from 1997. Other dissertations and theses are available for online purchase. |
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