Find Electronic Journal Articles and Conference Papers

IEEE Xplore (IEEE/IET Digital library) ★ ★ ★

An excellent source of information for all FoC staff and students and an essential source for project students at undergraduate or MSc. level, students undertaking research for a PhD and also staff undertaking research.

• Full text access to IEEE/IET journals, magazines, transactions, conference papers.
• Comprehensive database covers all aspects of communications technology, electrical and electronic engineering and related areas including networking.
• IEEE Standards
• 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, staff undertaking research and MSc. project students.

• International database covering world literature from many publishers from1992 onwards.
• Search the Inspec database by topic keywords.
• Obtain 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 otherwise most documents can be obtained through our Interlibrary loans service.
• Also a useful source of information for final year undergraduate project students.

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Wiley-Blackwell Science, Technology and Medicine Collection ★ ★

• Full text access to selected Wiley and Blackwell Science journals.
• Subject areas include communications technology and computing.
• Browse a specific title or search by topic.
• Lookout for these journals: Bell Labs Technical Journal, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, International Journal of Communication System, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters.

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ISI Web of Knowledge (Containing Web of Science) ★ ★

A good source for project students at undergraduate or MSc. level, students undertaking research for a PhD and staff undertaking research.

• International database covering 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 of scientific journal articles and conference proceedings extending back to 1981.
• You may be able to obtain the full text via our Interlibrary loans service.
• Search by topic.
• Cited Reference Search. Find the articles that cite a person's work. This feature may be particularly useful for MPhil/PhD students and staff.

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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, 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 but not the full text to journal articles and conferences. If we don’t have the journal, 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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Science Direct (published by Elsevier) ★

Journals articles in the subject areas of science, technology, medicine and mathematics. Specific journals on signal processing, optoelectronics, microelectronics, microprocessors, VLSI.

• Browse a specific title or search by topic.
• Full text articles from 1995- (earlier for some journals)
• Look out for the following journals: Signal Processing, Integration, the VLSI Journal, Microelectronics Journal, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Optical Switching and Networking and Optical Fiber Technology.

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ACM Digital Library ★

The ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library)

• Covers all aspects of computer science and related areas.
• Provides access to full text articles from journals and conference proceedings of the ACM and affiliated organisations.
• Browse by title or search by topic.
• Good for students under taking projects on computer networks, security.

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