Find Electronic Journal Articles and Conference Papers

IEEE/IET Digital library via IEEE Xplore ★ ★ ★
An excellent source of information for undergraduate and postgraduate students from their first assignment to their project. This is a key source of information for project students at undergraduate or MSc. level, students undertaking research for a PhD, staff undertaking research.

• Full text access to IEEE and IET journals, magazines, transactions, conferences and IEEE standards.
• IEEE/IET publications on all aspects of computing and related areas including multimedia and also electrical and electronic and communications engineering.
• Coverage is from 1988 onwards, plus selected content back as far as 1913.
• Browse a specific title or search the IEEE Xplore database for articles by topic.

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Inspec ★ ★ ★
Key resource for most Faculty of Computing MPhil/PhD students and staff undertaking research and a useful source of information for final year undergraduate and postgraduate project students.

• Over 4000 journals and some 2000 published conference proceedings are covered as well as reports and dissertations from many publishers and institutions, including IEEE/IET.
• International database covering world literature from many publishers in computing and related areas from1992 onwards.
• Detailed abstracts (i.e. summaries) and citations or references (i.e. author, article title, journal /conference title, volume, date of publication, etc.) to journal articles and conference proceedings but not the full text.
• You may have access to the journal from the library catalogue or may be able to obtain the article via our Interlibrary loans service.
• Search the Inspec database by topic.

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ACM Digital Library ★ ★ ★
The ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library) is a valuable source of information for searching on a specific topic for an assignment or project for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for PhD students and staff undertaking research.

• Provides access to full text articles from journals and conference proceedings of the ACM and affiliated organisations.
• Covers all aspects of computing and related areas.
• Browse by title or search by topic.

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Science Direct (published by Elsevier) ★ ★
Journals articles in the subject areas of science, technology, medicine and mathematics, including discrete mathematics, computer networks, education and computing, computer fraud & security, computer graphics, human computer interaction, information systems, knowledge-based systems and neural networks.

• Browse a specific title or search by topic.
• Full text articles from 1995- (earlier for some journals)

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Wiley-Blackwell Science, Technology and Medicine Collection ★ ★

• Full text access to selected Wiley and Blackwell Science journals.
• Subject areas include engineering, physics, information science, computing, mathematics, statistics and business.
• Browse a specific title or search by topic.

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ISI Web of Knowledge (Containing Web of Science) ★ ★
This is a good source of information for final year undergraduate and MSc students researching for projects, /MPhil/PhD students and staff undertaking research. The Cited Reference Search feature may be particularly useful for MPhil/PhD students and staff.

• International database covers world literature in all areas of science. It contains the citation indexes, The Science Citation index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
• Access to references and abstracts, i.e. summaries (but usually not to the full text) of scientific journal articles and conference proceedings extending back to 1981. You may be able to obtain the article via our Interlibrary loans service.
• Search by topic.
• Cited Reference Search. Find the articles that cite a person's work

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Zetoc - Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) from the British Library ★ ★
This database is a useful adjunct to INSPEC and ISI web of Knowledge, for PhD students and staff undertaking research.

• Covers science (inc. computing and mathematics), technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities from 1993 to date.
• Contains contents pages of approximately 20,000 current journals and details of 16,000 conference proceedings.
• Search for references and abstracts (summaries) but not the full text to journal articles and conferences. You may be able to obtain the article via our Interlibrary loans service.
• Table of Contents alerting service, allows the contents pages of chosen journals to be emailed every time a new issue is loaded into the database.

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Business Source Complete (business computing) ★
Good source of information for students searching for business, management and retail information to provide ‘background’ information for business computing projects.

• Summaries and references to journals articles with access to full text of quite a few but not all journal articles.
• Company profiles and SWOT analysis.

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Academic Search Complete ★
General database covering arts and sciences, mostly with non current content. Full text articles from selected journals on information technology, information and computer security.

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