Computer
Science and Artificial
Intelligence are two useful subject headings to use. If you do not wish to browse the subtopics and related headings, do a word search on your topic and follow the subject heading links at the bottom of relevant records to find additional, useful resources.
It is possible to browse the collection electronically by clicking on the call number link of an item. Materials having similar call numbers, shelved anywhere in the library, will appear in call number order.
To generate a partial list of periodicals pertaining to Computer Science/Artificial
Intelligence subscribed to by the library, do a subject search on Artificial Intelligence and click Limit/Sort. Choose Serial in the MATERIAL type field.
Library Catalogs
Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Books, videos, government documents, etc. in Bowdoin's library.
NExpress
A combined catalog containing the library holdings of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Wellesley,
Williams, Middlebury, and Northeastern. Requests take 2-3 days.
MaineCat
Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. Requests take 2-5 days
WorldCat
A combined database of many library catalogs worldwide. Request items found in WorldCat through our Interlibrary Loan service.
A quick search of resources in this field of study can be done in the Cast-A-Net box below on the right. Otherwise, select from the individual databases below on the left.
Core Databases
- ACM Digital Library [about]
ACM Digital Library
Coverage Dates: 1947 -
Format: Online
Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947 are available in the library together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.
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- CiteSeer [about]
CiteSeer
Coverage Dates: Varies - Varies
Format: Online
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
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- General Science Index (1984- ) [about]
General Science Index (1984- )
Coverage Dates: 1984 - Present
Format: Online
Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain. Includes articles, reviews, biographical sketches, and letters to the editor.
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- MathSciNet [about]
MathSciNet
Coverage Dates: 1940 - Present
Format: Online
Provides access to over 58 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
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- ScienceDirect [about]
ScienceDirect
Coverage Dates: 1995 - Present
Format: Online
Full text access to scholarly journals in the sciences, technical, and medical fields.
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- Web of Science [about]
Web of Science
Coverage Dates: 1990 - Present
Format: Online
Scholarly articles in the social sciences and sciences. Also used to do cited reference searching.
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Cast-A-Net Combined Search
simultaneously searches these databases
· ACM Digital Library
· Bowdoin College Library Catalog
· CiteSeer
· General Science Index (1984- )
· MathSciNet
· ScienceDirect
· Web of Science
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Advanced Search
Reference Sources
Computer Science Handbook
Science Ref QA 76 .C57315 2004
Over 100 chapters describe fundamental principles, "best practices," research horizons, and their impact upon the professions and society. There are glossaries of key terms, references, and further information sources including web sites.
Encyclopedia of Computer Science
Science QA76.15 .E48 2000
Substansive definitions of terms and over 700 articles.
International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers
Science Ref QA76.2.A2 L44 1995
Brief biographical sketches including quotations and a list of significant publications.
Web Sites
Each of these websites contains hundreds of links to software, tutorials,
journals, encyclopedias, conference proceedings, reports, associations and
educational institutions.
Librarian's
Index to the Internet - Computer Topics
http://lii.org/search/file/computers
Browse 29 subtopics or search by keyword, subject, title or description.
Argus
Clearinghouse - Computers and Information Technology
http://www.clearinghouse.net/cgi-bin/chadmin/viewcat/Computers_and_Information_Technology?kywd++
"The Computers and Information Technology category includes guides on topics pertaining to all aspects of computers, computer users and computing environments, as well as the technologies that support computer-mediated information storage, manipulation, transfer, exchange or sharing."
