Graduate Computing Research Sources

Finding Full Text Articles in Computing Journals

• Click on the link or go to www.govst.edu/library/fulltext.
• In the first dialog box, type       acm     and press enter.
• Several titles starting with “acm” will be listed. Start with ACM Computing Surveys.
• Click on the Business Source Elite link and browse the issues.
• Choose the PDF format of an article, when available.

Try the above instructions using Communications of the ACM, Computing, or IEEE in the dialog box.

Open Access Resources

Books,  Journals,  Programming and Programming Languages,  Style Guides,  Technical Reports, 
   Tutorials and Courses

Books

FreeTechBooks
http://www.freetechbooks.com
IBM Redbooks
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com
National Academies Press
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/sujbectstart?QA

Journals

The Directory of Computing Science Journals
http://elib.cs.sfu.ca/Collections/CMPT/cs-journals/
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=114

Programming and Programming Languages

Programming and Programming Languages: Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/
Open Directory Project: Computers: Programming: Languages
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/ 
Programmers Heaven
http://www.programmersheaven.com/

Style Guides

IEEE Computer Society Style Guide
http://www.computer.org/author/style/
Online Citation Styles
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html 
Submitting Articles to ACM Journals
http://www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm 

Technical Reports

GrayLIT Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports
http://graylit.osti.gov
Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library
http://www.ncstrl.org/ 
Online CS Techreports
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jblythe/cs-reports.html
TR Archive Sites List
http://www.eccc.uni-trier.de/eccc/info/ftp_sites.html
The Virtual Technical Reports Center
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html 

Tutorials and Courses

FindTutorials.com
http://www.findtutorials.com 
Help Site Computer Manuals
http://help-site.com 
Interoperability Laboratory: Knowledge Base: Tutorials
http://www.iol.unh.edu/knowledgeBase/training/ 
MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm
Web Developer's Virtual Library: Tutorials
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Tutorials/ 
World Lecture Hall: Computer Science
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/browse.cfm

Associations

ACM -  www.acm.org – The first society in computing.
IEEE - www.ieee.org - The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
IEEE Computer Society - http://www.computer.org - With nearly 100,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading organization of computer professionals. Founded in 1946, it is the largest of the 39 societies of the IEEE.