Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the
MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant
to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such
as:
To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the
Location Guide.
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students,
faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin
searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a
UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
Before you do your research, you may want to read a little about how science and scientists publish the information they discover in the course of their research and why one source of information may not be as good as another. Sense about Science.
- ACM Digital Library 1954 - present.
Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1954 - present; coverage varies by title.Includes citations and full text of articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Indexes
nearly 9,000 full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference
proceedings, from 1991 forward; has Tables of Contents with nearly 5,000 citations
from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward; and
the Tables of Contents with nearly 15,000 citations from articles published
in over 400 volumes of conference proceedings from 1985 to 1996.
- Applied
Science & Technology Index (1958 – 1997)
Ref Index Wall 1 Z 7913 .I7
Indexes 335 English-language periodicals in aeronautics, chemistry, computer
science, earth science, electronics, engineering, mathematics, physics, and other
science subjects.
- arXiv.org is an archive for over 350,000 electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science and biology which can be accessed via the internet. The site is hosted and operated by Cornell University. A majority of the preprints are submitted to journals for publication, but some work, including even very influential papers, remains purely as e-prints and is never published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Compendex See Ei Compendex Plus
- Computing Reviews ( 1965 – Present)
MNL Periodicals, 2nd floor
-
CSA Technology Research Databases Save to del.icio.us (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
1962 - present.
Includes High Technology Database with Aerospace
- Current Contents (Ovid) July 1993 - present.
Note: This database is no longer available.
-
Dissertations
& Theses (ProQuest) 1861 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1963 - present (Includes UMKC dissertations and theses only).
"The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database
is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and
theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3
million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation
published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author.
Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic
citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than
60,000 new citations are added to the database every year."
Selected full text for UMKC dissertations and theses is available. [Source:
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database information page; accessed January
3, 2007.]
- Ei Compendex Plus (Ovid) 1980 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Ei Compendex
Plus (Ovid) 1987 - present. Save to del.icio.us
"Ei Compendex* Plus provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for
worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering
disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. The records
in the database are drawn from over 2,600 published journals, conference proceedings
and individual conference papers, technical reports, monographs, and other materials."
[Source: Ovid Technologies Field Guide: Ei Compendex*
Plus, accessed June 20, 2006.] Link to Ovid
Web user's guide. The online version of Engineering Index indexes journals, conference papers, and other publications.
-
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) (FirstSearch) 1995 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1995 - present.
A collection of journals in a variety of subject areas. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text articles from journals to which the University Libraries subscribe. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide.
- General Science Index
Ref Index Wall 1 Z7401 .G46
Indexes over 100 English-language general science periodicals. Not available
remotely.
- IEEE Xplore (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library Online) 1950 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text for all materials 1988-present. Additional full text available for some journals; see publisher website for complete information.
- INSPEC (Ovid) 1969 - present. Save to del.icio.us
INSPEC (Ovid) 1987 - present. Save to del.icio.usCovers publications in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications,
control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Link
to Ovid Web user's guide.
- ISI Web
of Science
Note: This database is no longer available.
-
Journals@Ovid (Ovid) 1993 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1993 - present.
- OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
- Public STINET (Scientific
and Technical Information Network) 1975 - present. Save
to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1988 - present.
Public STINET
is the portion of the STINET database which the U.S.
government makes available to the general public. It provides access to
all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added into DTIC from
late December 1974 to present. There are also full-text versions of all
unclassified, unlimited documents recently added into the DTIC Technical
Reports Collection from September 1998 to present.
-
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1996 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text October 1996 - present.
Full-text access to the weekly science magazine.
- Science Citation Index (Online) SeeISI Web of Science
Note: This database is no longer available.
-
ScienceDirect Save to del.icio.us (Elsevier) 1823 - present; coverage
varies by title.
Selected full text 2000 - present; Clinics of North America titles 1996 - present.
New Additional journals are now available with the addition of the Freedom Collection.
- ScienceNOW (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1996
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1996 - present.
An online news service from Science magazine. Articles are posted daily
except U.S. holidays.
-
Scirus 1920
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Large in scope with a user-friendly interface, this search engine is
an excellent research tool for finding scientific information on the Internet.
It indexes more than 167 million web pages
as well is a number of online article citation collections. The citations
often link to full text, but a subscription to the specific journal might
be required to access the document.
- SciFinder Scholar. 1907 - present. UMKC students, faculty and staff can use this database from the workstations in the Miller Nichols Library Information Commons or elsewhere on campus, by using the SciFinder Scholar Downloading Information (http://merlin.missouri.edu/merlin/pages/scholar.htm) to download a copy of the client software. Access available 24 hours a day except Saturday from 10:00 p.m. until midnight and on the first Saturday of each month: available until 4:00 p.m.
Note: The 2004 version of SciFinder Scholar has been retired. Please install the 2007 version.
University Libraries Photocopying and Printing Services
Selected Journals
This list includes journals available in the University Libraries (check the
MERLIN Library Catalog for holdings and location
information). To identify additional related journals, search
MERLIN by subject or keyword.
Print Journals Available at Miller Nichols Library:
(links to electronic versions, if available, are found in the MERLIN catalog record)
- ACM
Computing Surveys
- ACM
Transactions (various subjects)
- Byte
- Communications
of the ACM
- Computers & Society
- Computerworld
- Computing
Reviews
- Datamation
- Dr.
Dobb's Journal
- IEEE
Transactions on Communications
- IEEE
Transactions on Computers
- Internet
World
- Journal
of the ACM
- MacWorld
- PC World
Print Journals Available at Linda Hall
Library (www.lindahall.org):
Select
Search
Leonardo and search by: All Titles Alphabetical to see Linda Hall Library's
holdings for the following journals:
- IEEE Expert
- IEEE Network
- Journal of Computer and System Sciences
- Science Citation Index
Electronic Journals on the Web:
Note: Many of these journals allow only limited access without
a subscription.
Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions,
and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless
otherwise noted.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
| Encyclopedia
of Computer Science |
Ref QA76.15 .E48 |
| Encyclopedia
of Networking |
TK5105.5 .F44 |
| The
IEEE Standard Dictionary |
Ref TK9 .I478 |
Handbooks
| The
C++ Standard Library |
QA76.73 .C153 J69 |
| The
Handbook of Software for Engineers and Scientists |
RefQA76.754 .H35 |
| Learning
Web Design |
TK5105.888 .N54 |
| Local
Area Network Handbook |
Ref TK5105.7.L5816 |
| The
Online Teaching Guide |
LB1044.87 .O45 |
| SQL
in a Nutshell |
QA76.73.S67 K55 |
| The
XML Handbook |
QA76.76 .H94 .G65 |
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless
otherwise noted.
- Fedworld
Established by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) this site
provides a starting point for searching, locating, and acquiring federal
government and business information.
(www.fedworld.gov)
- US National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Develops and applies technology measurement standards, CSTL physical and
Chemical Properties.
(www.nist.gov)
- National Science Foundation
Site has full-text information on Grants and Funding, Relevant Readings in
Chemistry, Funding opportunities, Programs/Awards, proposal and Submission
Formats, and Evaluation criteria.
(www.nsf.gov)
- Science.gov A gateway to authoritative
selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including
research and development results.
(www.science.gov)
- US Patent and Trademark Office (1976-)
Front page information and AIDS patent database full-text with images. Site
includes patent Information, Guides for filling design patents, Examining
procedures, Patent rules and regulations.
(www.uspto.gov)
Use search engines linked on the Internet
Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
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