Research Guides: Computer Information Systems: Home

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Welcome to the duPont-Ball Library research guide for Computer Information Systems!

This guide links to the library's research tools focused on computer information systems.

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Database Best Bets for Research

ACM Digital Library
The full-text repository of papers published by the Association for Computing Machinery and by other publishers that have co-publishing or co-marketing agreements with ACM.
Science Direct
This database includes the health and life sciences portion of the Science Direct College Edition. About 1,000 peer-reviewed journals; hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works; back to volume one, issue one.
ProQuest Complete
Searching most of the ProQuest databases at once, including ProQuest Research, ABI/Inform, GenderWatch, Hoovers Company Records, ProQuest Biology, Science, and Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Newspapers.
Web of Science
Interdisciplinary database includes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Includes citation searching (see how many times a paper has been cited). Coverage: 2000 - present.

Reference books

Dictionary of Computing by A&C Black Staff (Editor); Jane Russell
Call Number: QA76.752 .C65 2008 EBOOKREF
Publication Date: 2008
BCS Glossary of Computing and ICT by BCS Glossary Working Party (Editorial Coordinator); Thomas Ng, et al
Call Number: QA76.15 .G59 2013 EBOOKREF
Publication Date: 2013
Computer Graphics Companion by Jeffrey J. McConnell (Editor); Jeffrey J. Mcconnell (Editor)
Call Number: T385 .C559 2003 EBOOKREF
Publication Date: 2006
Encyclopedia of Computer Science by Anthony Ralston (Editor); Edwin D. Reilly (Editor); David Hemmendinger (Editor)
Call Number: QA76.15 .E48 2003 EBOOKREF
Publication Date: 2003

Featured titles

The Agile Architecture Revolution by Jason Bloomberg
Call Number: HD45 .B5466 2013 EBOOK
Publication Date: 2013
Enterprise Software Architecture and Design by Dominic Duggan
Call Number: T58.6 .D84 2012 EBOOK
Publication Date: 2012
Event Processing for Business by David C. Luckham
Call Number: QA76.9 .D5 L825 2012 EBOOK
Publication Date: 2011
Guide to Computer Network Security by Joseph Migga Kizza
Call Number: TK5105.59 .K19 2012 SHELVES
Publication Date: 2013
Information Storage and Management by EMC Education Services Staff
Call Number: T58.6 .I51 2012 EBOOK
Publication Date: 2012
The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt; Jared Cohen
Call Number: HM851 .S365 2013 SHELVES NEWBOOKS
Publication Date: 2013