The following guide contains suggested resources for Computer Science. The guide lists reference sources and electronic databases available to students and faculty of Hofstra University as well as publicly available websites.

Indexes, Abstracts, and Full-Text Research Databases Finding Articles (Research Databases) Search Engines, Gateways, Virtual Libraries Finding Books Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks Writing Style Guides Associations and Organizations Career Preparation / Employment Information Useful Hofstra University Links

Hofstra University subscribes to Research Databases in many disciplines; resources identified here are specific to computer science.

• If you find a citation for an article you wish to read and there is no direct link to it from the database you are using, please go to Journal Finder to determine if the University Library has the article in print or digitized form. If the article is not available, you may request it through InterLibrary Loan.

• If you find a citation for a book, technical report, document, or other material you wish to access and there is no direct link to it from a research database, use the Library Catalog to ascertain if the item is available in the Hofstra University Library System. If the item is not listed in the Library Catalog and you wish to borrow materials not available at the Hofstra University Library, please follow instructions for InterLibrary Loan.

ACM Digital Library: 1950-present
ACM Digital Library is a comprehensive collection of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications online, including a 50+ year archive of over 40 ACM journals, magazines, and peer-reviewed articles as well as ACM conference proceedings and ACM SIG newsletters. The ACM Guide provides access to more than 900,000 bibliographic sources and citations from computing books, journals, proceedings and theses beyond ACM's proprietary literature.

• Users may register for a table of contents email service to be notified when new issues or proceedings become available.
• Users may register to create a bookshelf within the library to organize, store and share articles of interest, and to build bibliographies for future reference.

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library: 1988-present; select content from 1950-present
IEEE Digital Library provides online access to the full-text of IEEE journals, magazines, transactions, and conference proceedings, with complete archives.

• Users may subscribe to an email alerting service which highlights new content.

Math SciNet: Mathematical Reviews on the Web: 1941-present
MathSciNet is a comprehensive database of reviews, abstracts, and bibliographical information for much of the world's mathematical sciences literature. MathSciNet is published by the American Mathematical Society.

ScienceDirect: Coverage varies
ScienceDirect provides full-text access to over 2000 authoritative journals from the core scientific, technical and medical literature published by Elsevier, including a computer science collection comprised of 130 journals.

• Users may register for volume, citation and/or topic email alerting service

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Search engines, gateways, and virtual libraries provide access to web sites that have been filtered and/or evaluated in some manner for accuracy, authority and/or currency; however, users must still evaluate material with care. Evaluating Information Found on the Internet prepared by Elizabeth E. Kirk of Johns Hopkins University discusses criteria which may be used to assess information found on the Internet.

BUBL LINK: Catalogue of Internet Resources / Computer Science Research
BUBL is an Internet-based information service intended for the UK higher education community; each annotated entry on this selective list of Internet sites provides information regarding author, subject(s), Dewey Classification, and resource type. Access article abstracts, bibliographies, documents, gateways, indexes, journals and much more via this resource.

CiteSeer.IST
CiteSeer is a search engine and scientific literature digital library that focuses primarily on computer and information science literature and aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature in the discipline. Hosted at the College of Information Science and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, CiteSeer also provides resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that may be used to promote other digital libraries.

INFOMINE: Physical Science, Engineering, Computing & Math
INFOMINE is a virtual library of scholarly Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains links to resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library catalogs, peer-reviewed articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

Intute Computing Gateway
Intute Computing Gateway provides free access to high quality information on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorized by subject specialists based at UK universities, and the target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher education. Access full-text books, articles, documentation, technical reports, and much more.

Scirus
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine that enables the user to quickly pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical data on the Internet. Developed by Elsevier, Scirus focuses on scientific content and searches preprint servers, digital archives, repositories, and patent and journal databases including arXiv.org, e-Prints, CogPrints, MIT OpenCourseWare, NASA, ScienceDirect and many other digital repositories.

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Library Catalog

Use the online Library Catalog to locate books, government documents, audiovisual sources and other materials located in the Hofstra University Library system. This brief guide to Library of Congress subject headings may be used to locate call numbers for books relevant to computer science when browsing in the library:

Computer Science Series

Advances in Computers / Elsevier / edited by Marvin Zelkowitz
Axinn Library Call Number: QA76 .A3 volume 1- (current to volume 71)
Covers new developments in computer technology, hardware, software, theoretical underpinnings of computing, and novel applications of computers.

Annual Review of Computer Science / Annual Reviews, Inc.
Available in Annual Reviews research database.
Discontinued in 1990 after only four volumes, this series is of historical importance to the field of computer science.

Research Databases

Ebrary: Use Ebrary to access a collection of over 23,000 electronic books in all disciplines from top publishers. In order to read the electronic books, you must have the Ebrary Reader installed on your computer (follow the "Get Ebrary Reader" link). Follow the instructions to install.

WorldCat: WorldCat lists holdings for books, manuscripts, sound recordings, videotapes, etc. located in libraries around the world. If you would like to borrow a book that is not available at Hofstra, see the section on Interlibrary Loan.

Interlibrary Loan

If a book or a journal is not available through Hofstra, you can borrow it from another library. You must set up an account through Interlibrary Loan, an electronic service. Books take approximately a week to three weeks to arrive and must be returned while journal articles can take three days to three weeks. You will receive a photocopy of the journal article, which you may keep.

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BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
Started in 1989, the BABEL Glossary is updated three times yearly.

Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics by Stan Gibilisco
McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2002.
Available in ebrary
Provides 400 brief articles explaining concepts, illustrations, and a bibliography.

Dictionary of Computing and the Internet
Abingdon/Helicon Publishers, 2005.
Available in ebrary
Provides brief definitions and biographies.

FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products and history that includes more than 14,000 terms.

Handbook of Natural Language Processing / edited by Robert Dale et al
New York/Marcel Dekker, 2000.
Available in ebrary

Webopedia
Webopedia provides easy-to-understand definitions for words, phrases, and abbreviations related to computer and Internet technology. Where applicable, links are provided to sources of further information on a topic.

Scholarly writing, including research papers developed for graduate or undergraduate courses, usually requires the author to document resources from which ideas and views are derived. Please consult with the professor of your course to determine which format is expected.

ACM Style Guide: Submitting Articles to ACM Journals

APA Style Citation Guide

Chicago Manual of Style

IEEE Computer Society Style Guide

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
(University of Vermont)


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Web sites of leading organizations for computer professionals provide visitors with information about membership, publications, conferences, meetings, employment opportunities, and more. Some organizations allow access to all areas for non-members; others allow only partial access to non-members.

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Association for Women in Computing (AWC)

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)

IEEE Computer Society (IEEE)

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

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Resume and Cover Letter Preparation

101 Best Tech Resumes by Jay A. Block and Michael Betrus
New York/McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Available in ebrary

eResumes: Everything You Need to Know about Using Electronic Resumes to Tap into Today's Job Market by Susan Britton Whitcomb and Pat Kendall
New York/McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Available in ebrary

Killer Cover Letters and Resumes! The WetFeet Insider Guide
San Francisco/WetFeet, Inc. 2003.
Available in ebrary

The Resume Makeover: 50 Common Problems with Resumes and Cover Letters-and How to Fix Them by John J. Marcus
New York/McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Available in ebrary

Resumes for Computer Careers
Chicago/VGM Career Books, 2002.
Available in ebrary

Interview Preparation

Ace the IT Job Interview! by Paula Moreira
New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002.
Available in ebrary

Ace the Technical Interview (4th Edition) by Michael Rothstein and Daniel Rothstein
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Available in ebrary

201 Best Questions to Ask on Your Interview by John Kador
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Available in ebrary

Career Opportunities

ACM Career & Job Center

Developers.net
Click on careers.

IEEE Career and Employment Resources

Hofstra University Ask a Librarian

Hofstra University Libraries Home Page

Hofstra University Department of Computer Science

Hofstra University Home Page

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Questions? Please contact:

Christine Wondolowski Gerstein, M.Mus., M.L.S.
Associate Professor / Collection Development Librarian
902D Axinn Library
Hofstra University
516.463.6430
Christine.Gerstein@hofstra.edu

Last revised 03.06.2008