Bibliographic Research Links

This page is meant as an introduction to some general bibliographic research links for postgraduate students in the department of computer science,  Hong Kong UST.

General Bibliographies

• Citeseer:  Indexes much computer science research.  Permits finding all papers that cite a certain paper or are cited by it. The software generates citation counts.
• DBLP: Computer Science Bibliography
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies:  Exactly what it says.
• The Geometry Literature Data Base:  A bibtex database of the field
• Scirus:  A Science Specific Search Engine
• Google Scholar: Stand on the shoulders of giants . . . .

Online Publications

• SIAM Journals Online: E-versions of the newer volumes of the journals of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.  Older volumes of many of the journals are also accessible via JSTOR.
• Springer Link: The Springer-Verlag information service with links to many of their publications.  Note that this link is for the general public and might not give full-text access to some journals.  For those with a HKUST login full-text access is available at Springer E-Journals.
• e-Print archive: Electronic preprint server. First designed for physics but has a good selection of math and computer science papers as well.

Links only accessible with HKUST logins

• HKUST Library Databases: List of all of the UST databases,  many available online.
• HKUST Electronic Journals: List and searching capability.
• INSPEC: Citations and abstracts of more than 4200 journals and 1000 conference proceedings
• MathSciNet: Citations and reviews to international literature in mathematics and related areas.
• Web of Science: Provides web access to Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index
• ACM Portal to Computing Literature: Includes the ACM Digital Library
• IEEE XPLORE: the online version of the IEEE Electronic Library
• JSTOR: Offers the full-text of 124 core journals in 16 disciplines going back to their first issues. As an archival database, issues of recent 3-5 years are not available
• ScienceDirect (Web editions): Provides the full image of over 330 Elsevier journals subscribed to by the Library. Only the last 12 months issues are available. The database offers no searching capability but is indexed in Scirus.
• Springer E-Journals: Provides the full images of over 400 journals published by Springer
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations: Contains the full contents of the Dissertation Abstracts database. Also also provides 24 page previews of theses published since 1997.
• NetLibrary: Provides full-text access to 42,000 ebooks in a  wide range of disciplines: humanities, social sciences, business, science and engineering
   

Interlibrary loan: Online research tools are wonderful tools but,  with the exception of the journals archived in JSTOR it can be difficult to get online copies of papers that appeared prior to the early 1990s.  When you need such papers, and they are not available in hardcopy form in the library collection,  your best option is to request photocopies of the articles via interlibrary loan. Postgraduate students are eligible to make  40 free ILL requests per semester (anything over 40 needs to be paid for). See this library page for more details. The login page for online requests is here

Last updated on 07/31/2007 by Mordecai Golin