Subject Guide: Computer Science
Subject Specific Databases
ACM Digital Library Includes full text of all publications of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Academic Search Ultimate A large, academically multidisciplinary article database that is a very good place to start a scholarly literature search.
General and Related Databases
ScienceDirect Scholarly articles from scientific, technical, and medical journals. A product of the major academic publisher Elsevier.
MathSciNet Scholarly articles on mathematics and mathematical research.
WorldCat A huge database of books and other materials found in libraries across the U.S. and worldwide that you can borrow using Interlibrary Loan.
Search Engines
Google Yes, this go-to search engine is a great way to get background on a search topic and gauge how much information there is on it.
Google Scholar The next level go-to search engine that’s as familiar looking as Google and provides a useful sense of how many professional and scholarly sources there are on a topic.
