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Google Scholar searches scholarly sources like academic publishers, professional societies, repositories, university websites, and more. Instead of their typical Google algorithms, Google Scholar uses rankings with more weight given to the full text, author, publication location, and citation in other scholarly literature.
Features 3 concise, self-paced modules to guide novice researchers through searching for and using appropriate sources in writing.
These self-paced modules are especially useful for those wishing to increase their research impact. Topics include funding and grant writing, technical writing skills, finding the right journal for your manuscript, and more.
A tool created to help researchers explore methods concepts, help design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.
Full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including journals, magazine, transactions, proceedings, newsletters, and other publications.
A resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics including database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, intranets and the internet.
Offers full text for nearly 300 publications that provide researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.
Contains the full-text of all IEEE journals, transactions, letters, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards from 1988 to the present, with select content back to 1953.
Contains over 820 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community.
Includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database also includes periodicals and journals with information on computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.
Gale OneFile: Information Science is a database curated for library science students and information science and technology professionals. The database is updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.
Information Science Technology Abstracts: Indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents.
Security and Forensic Science and Technology
A collection of ebooks in emerging technology areas of security and forensic science, such as cyber warfare, computational intelligence, network security attacks, and cyber security.
Provides access to the world's leading citation databases, with coverage from nearly 9,300 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access Journals. Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage dating back to 1965.