Computing

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Computing.

Use the University VPN to access to these resources, any time, anywhere.

Getting Started

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Options for getting started with Library resources.

Books

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Options for finding book material.

For some assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough sources to work with.

Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular names as a good way of finding articles. This page lists key sources for Computing:

Check out this video on how to find journal titles.

Check out this introductory video on finding journal articles.

If we don't have an item you're interested in, we may be able to obtain it via Interlibrary Loan or watch this video which explains how.

Note that the above cover just one publisher. (Science Direct, for example, is a database of Elsevier publications). If you want to do wider searches and literature reviews which draw on the width of the literature, you'll need to do a little more work and include these indexing databases in your research. We may not have the full text of these articles (but can obtain them via Inter Library Loan) but you may find the database links through to full text where we have it.

Engineering Village consists of three bibliographic databases, GEOBASE, GeoRef and Compendex. GEOBASE is a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information and abstracts that indexes journal literature across the earth sciences including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography and geomechanics from 1980-present. GeoRef covers geological literature from North America (1785-present), plus geological literature from the rest of the world (1933-present).

Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering and computing research available. This may be of use to GIS students.

There's a quick search video tutorial and a Refining Results video tutorial

There's not a video for the Expert Search, but there are help pages here, which are very useful. 

Indexes to journal articles and conference proceedings for a wide range of topics including computing.


• Greenfile 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

GreenFILE covers research information on all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. This is a multidisciplinary resource and topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. 

short video (90 seconds) introducing GreenFILE and why you might want to use it for computing subject area searches.


• TechRxiv 

TechRxiv (pronounced "tech archive") is an open, moderated preprint server for unpublished research in the areas of engineering, computer science, and related technology.

Some of the fields of interest include:

Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis

short video (80 seconds) introducing the TechRxiv database.

Additional access instructions:

If you can't click through to the full text of this database, consider an interlibrary loan.

 

Referencing

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Your Subject Team

 Timothy Collinson

Faculty Librarian

email timothy.collinson@port.ac.uk

 Marie Smith

Assistant Faculty Librarian

email Marie.smith@port.ac.uk