Hiram College Library -> Computer Science Resources Online

Finding Books
Hiram College Library Catalog -- for locally held materials.
OhioLINK Catalog -- for the combined catalogs of Ohio academic libraries.
WorldCat (off-campus Hiram users, click here)
Combined catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.  Currently includes more than 40 million bibliographic records for books, journals, media, etc.

Periodical Indexes -- For periodical articles relevant to your particular topic.
INSPEC (off-campus Hiram users, click here) 
Indexes and abstracts the scientific and technical literature in physics, computer science, information technology, and electrical engineering.  INSPEC covers more than 4,000 journals, more than 2,000 conference proceedings, books, reports and dissertations.    Coverage is international and goes back to 1969 with more than 6.7 million records.
Applied Science and Technology (off-campus Hiram users, click here) 
Indexes more than 400 core sources in science and technology.
Compendex (off-campus Hiram users, click here) 
Indexes more than 2,600 journals in all areas of engineering.
ACM Digital Library 
Provides the full-text (from 1991 to the present) of 10 journals and 13 transactions published by the Association for Computing Machinery, plus two journals co-sponsored by the ACM.  You can search the entire database (not all full-text is available to Hiram users) or a specific title.
ISI Web of Science (off-campus Hiram users, click here)
The combined database of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index.
Electronic Journals Center (off-campus Hiram users, click here) 
Searchable, full-text issues of journals from major publishers.  More than 1,350 journal titles (as of 7/26/99), including titles from Project Muse.
Academic Search Premier (off-campus Hiram users, click here)
Multi-disciplinary database that indexes and abstracts some 4,300 periodicals.  Provides full-text to more than 3,300 with 2,500 being peer-reviewed journals.
MathSciNet (off-campus Hiram users, click here) 
This online version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications indexes articles and books in mathematics from 1940 to the present. Links to the full-text are not available to Hiram users. 

Locating Periodicals
Once you have identified relevant articles for your topic, you will need to find the actual article.  Depending on the database(s) you searched, you may have already found the text of the article online.  If not, to see which articles are owned by the Hiram College Library, check the Hiram College Library Periodicals Holdings List, as well as the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Finder to see which periodicals are available online in full-text.

Other Databases
AccessScience (off-campus Hiram users, click here) 
The web version of McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, the database also includes news from the world of science, biographies of famous scientists, and links to related articles. 
ACM Digital Library
Provides the full-text (from 1991 to the present) of 10 journals and 13 transactions, plus the Proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery, plus two journals co-sponsored by the ACM.