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Computer Science and Engineering

This is a guide to computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing resources for all ASU campuses

Books

Finding Books with ASU Library's One Search

One Search locates items from across the ASU Library's collections and includes not just books, but also articles from scholarly journals, trade magazines and newspapers, chapters from reference books, dissertations/theses, maps, data sets, photographs,  government documents and much more. New material is being added almost every day. 

Search titles, keywords or authors in the single search box; an advanced search feature is also available.  When the results list is displayed, use the Content Type option in left column to limit the results to books/e-books.  

  • If the book is available in print, clicking on the title will take you to the ASU Library Catalog where you'll in which library the book is located, it's call number and whether it is checked out. Use the Request on the catalog record to recall a book that is checked out or to have a book shipped to the ASU Library of your choice. 
     
  • If the book is available online, clicking on the title or on the "Full Text" link will take you directly to the book. 

If the ASU Library doesn't have the book that you need, request the book via our Interlibrary Loan Service.

Electronic Books (E-Books) Collections

Many of our electronic books can be found in the ASU Library Catalog. However, you can search e-book collections directly.

Other e-books

Journal Articles and Conference Papers

Recommended

Other Databases

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Dictionaries

Hutchinson dictionary of computing and the internet
Abingdon : Helicon Pub., c2005.

Dictionary of information security
Rockland, MA : Syngress, c2006.

 

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of 20th-century technology
New York : Routledge, 2005.

Encyclopedia of multimedia
New York, N.Y.; London : Springer, c2006.

Encyclopedia of Computer Science

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Scholarpedia: an online peer-reviewed, open source encyclopedia

 

Free web-based dictionaries

BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms

BABEL can be used online or can be downloaded freely for personal use only.

Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

According to the site, the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing contains more than 14000 definitions of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, and anthing else that has to do with computing.

Webopedia

This free online dictionary, part of the internet.com network, has up-to-date definitions that reflect current trends in the field.

 

Standards

For more detailed information about standards at the ASU Library, please see the Standards Guide

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Full text of IEEE standards available in IEEEXplore

ANSI (American National Standards Institute) 

SEMI ("A ... global industry association connecting 1.5 million professionals from across the semiconductor and electronics design and manufacturing supply chain")

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 

 

Search Engines for Standards

IHS Global Engineering

ANSI Search (formerly NSSN)

Tech Street

Technical Reports

To identify what technical reports exist on a particular topic, use:

  • National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
    Contains over 2 million research citations from 1964 to the present. In addition to technical reports, also covers some computer products, software, video and audio material. Covers all subject areas of U.S. federally sponsored research and select foreign governments.
     
  • Department of Defense (DoD):
  • Department of Energy (DOE):
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Geological Survey (USGS)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  • Science.gov
    Searches over 36 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to 1,850+ scientific Websites.   Covers all types of government publications in addition to technical reports. 
     
  • Worldwide Science
    A single search interface for freely available English-language documents on the web; participating databases include those from: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States (science.gov).
     

To find the full text of a specific report:

  • Some technical reports are freely available on the Web at the sponsoring agency's website, try:
    • Using Google or another Internet search engine to find the report either by title, author, or report number
    • Go to the sponsoring agency's website and browse/search the site
       
  • TRAIL (Technical Report Archive and Image Library) 
    An ongoing project to digitize technical reports issued prior to 1975.  As of September 2008, mostly NBS (National Bureau of Standards) and some AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) reports were available.  U.S. Bureau of Mines may appear soon. 
     
  • The ASU Library have some technical reports in the collections of Noble Library (Tempe Campus) and in our Government Documents Department (3rd floor, Hayden Library, Tempe Campus) in either print, microfiche, and/or CD. If the document(s) you need is not on the Web, check for availability by calling either Gov Docs (480-965-3390) or Noble Library (480-965-2600) or using our Ask a Librarian's service at http://lib.asu.edu/ask-a-librarian.
     
  • If the document(s) you need is not available in the ASU Library, ASU faculty/students may submit an Interlibrary Loan request

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