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Databases & indexes

	ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library Bibliographic information and full text for articles published in Association for Computing Machinery journals, magazines and conference proceedings.
	Inspec (Web of Knowledge) Includes over 5 million citations from international journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, reports and books covering electronics, communications, physics, computing and information technology. Subjects: Electronics, Physics, Information Technology
	ProQuest Computing Provides comprehensive coverage of computer topics from scholarly journals, trade publications and consumer titles. The database includes around 450 titles, with over 350 available in full-text.
	Scopus A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
	Web of Science (Web of Knowledge) Citation databases with over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.

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Reference

• Dictionaries and Directories
• Encyclopedias

Dictionaries and Directories

• Elsevier's dictionary of computer graphics - Sci:Ref T 385.M878 2000
• Multimedia and the Web from A-Z 2nd ed - Sci:Ref QA 76.575.DK195 1998 

Encyclopedias

• Concise encyclopedia of modelling and simulation - Sci:Ref QA 76.9.C65 CQ78
• Encyclopedia of computer science 4th ed - Sci:Ref QA 76.15.EJ7 2000
• Information graphics, a comprehensive illustrated reference  - Sci:Ref QA 90.H9614

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Web sites

• AI topics - dynamic library of introductory information about Artificial Intelligence
• Australasian virtual engineering library
• BUBL Link Catalogue of Internet Resources: Computing
• CGS Network Glossary
• The Computer Information Centre - General computer & information science with recent links to magazines, industry information.
• Computer-mediated communication magazine - Publications, presentations and consulting related to computers, especially internet programming.
• IDG Product Finder
• IEEE Computer Society
• NEC Research Index - CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library
• SearchVB.com - Up-to-date source for Visual Basic - in 20 categories like The VB Website List, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks, Downloads. VB News & VB Forum are impressive; the news area maintains a backlog of major news on Visual Basic for the past 12 months. Serves both VB novices and VB professionals equally well
• Te Puna Web Directory - Science & Technology - See also NZ Commerce & Economy
• University of Otago Computer Science Department
• University of Otago Information Science Department
• Web developer's virtual library - An "encyclozine," a combination encyclopedia and electronic magazine, featuring several articles each month that are then integrated into the site's hierarchical content.
• Webopedia

Last revised: 12 May, 2010