Finding Articles

 Subscription Databases:   

Academic OneFile (Gale): Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO):  This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis.

ACM Digital Library (and Guide to Computing Literature): Full text of every article ever published by ACM.

Annual Reviews: Authoritative, analytical resource "...synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field" on an annual basis for a variety of scientific and social science disciplines. IUPUI provides extensive current and historical access for the life, health, and medical sciences. Titles include Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genomics and Human Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Physiology. Searches can be done by title, across the collection or by subject series (e.g. Biomedical Life Sciences). To customize your search, from the Search interface, choose Publications pull-down menu: Return reviews published in.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text (Wilson): Indexes articles, product evaluations, and book reviews in over 390 leading English-language periodicals published in the U.S. and elsewhere. The database includes trade and industrial publications, journals of professional and learned societies, and specialized subject periodicals.

Art Full Text (Wilson): A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world, including design-related content. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish.

ARTbibliographies Modern (CSA): Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 12-13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s.

ARTstor: Provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. The Charter Collection provides students, faculty, curators, and staff with access to a large and expanding resource of digital images and data for teaching and research in art history, as well as - more broadly - in the humanities and other disciplines.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO): ...provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).

Computer Database (Gale): A comprehensive information technology research database, covering computer science, electronics and telecommunications.

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (CSA): Contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making it the largest index of its kind in the world. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract.

EdITLib Digital Library: Education & Information Technology Library (EdITLib) Digital Library is a valuable online resource for those interested in Educational Technology and E-Learning. Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), this digital library holds over 22,000 peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

Emerald Insight Full Text: Coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including: strategy; leadership; information management; marketing; plus substantial content in applied science, and information and medical technology. See link to "Quick Browse" to view the journal subject collections.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS): ELS is a high quality resource for students, instructors, and researchers in the life sciences.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale): From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!

Faculty of 1000 Biology (BioMed Central): Article reviews can be browsed via 17 focused subject areas, including bioinformatics, biotechnology, genomics & genetics, molecular biology, and medical applications. "Insider's guide...systematically organizes and evaluates the mass of information within scientific literature..." to highlight "...papers on the basis of their scientific merit..."

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library: Provides online access to 22 society magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings.

IEEE Xplore: Provides full text access to the complete IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) of IEEE and IET journals, transactions, society publications, magazines, and conference papers. Includes search and linking to content from the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. AbstractPlus records and full text is provided for content published since 1988, and for select content published since 1913. IEEE provides the "world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics."

IET Journals: Page describes journals, which can be accessed via IEEE Xplore. Topics include communications and networks; image processing; computer vision; medical equipment technology; synthetic biology; systems biology; nanobiotechnology

IngentaConnect (Ingenta): IngentaConnect is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary document delivery service. From the home page it is possible to search across more than 27,000 publications, including more than 5,400 electronic journals from more than 190 publishers. Researchers can access publications and articles as subscribers, or on a pay-per-view basis. Publications and articles are available in downloadable electronic format, or as fax or Ariel documents.

LexisNexis Academic: LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. The 5,900 sources include:

• National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
• U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
• Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
• Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO): ...indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts (CSA): An international "abstracting and indexing" tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Major areas of coverage include: artificial intelligence; computer applications; information centres; information technology, storage and management; Internet technology; knowledge management.

MathSciNet (AMS): MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. It provides Web access to reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Review and Current Mathematical Publications. It provides links to original articles and free access to Featured Reviews.

MEDLINE (EBSCO): Research authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more with MEDLINE®.

Project Muse: "...a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers."

ProQuest Central: Large "...multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, more than 8,000 in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels with over 160 subject areas covered extensively in including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more." 

Science Resource Center (Gale): With Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.
This database has been made available through the Marion County Internet Library with support of the Library Fund of The Indianapolis Foundation. Access is restricted to Marion County residents only.

Scitation: Scitation provides online journal articles relevant to engineering, biophysics, chemical biology, bioinformatics, and computing.

Web of Knowledge (ISI): "Provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation IndexTM. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research."

Wiley Interscience Journal Search: Subject area browse page; access more than 300 online publications for researchers and professionals.

Open Access Resources:

BieColl - Bielefeld Electronic Collections: This site is an institution-based repository for conference proceedings from Universität Bielefeld, Germany. The site interface is available in both English and German. At the time of last review, this repository only contained conferences on informatics and computing.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. An article search across DOAJ content is available via the left tab: Find Articles.

DROPS (Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server): From the Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Center for Informatics, Germany, this site provides access to documents from both internal and external seminars and conferences. The interface is in English.

Informatics@Edinburgh - Reports Series: This is a subject based institutional repository site with papers from members of the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. The interface is restricted to a simple series of Web page lists of papers by title, author and speciality institute. Not all the papers are available, although full bibliographic references are given. Many reports are not available on the site, but are linked to external Open Access and some commercially published locations. As such the ability to access some of these later varieties of information will be restricted by the local subscription and access rights of the reader.

IUBio Archive: An Indiana University product, this site is a subject based repository for open source software and datasets for use in the field of bioinformatics. A subsidiary repository (IUBio Software Archive) duplicates the software portion of this repository. A mirror site of large datasets exists. The site has a number of subsection search interfaces to allow for querying of specific portions of the information collected on this site.

IUScholarWorks: Another Indiana University resource, this site is an university repository providing access to the publication output of the institution. As such only a limited number of departments have deposited materials so far researchers working in African studies, Folklore, History & Philosophy, Social Informatics and Library & Information Science have deposited materials. Registered users can set up email alerts to notify them of newly added relevant content.

OpenMED@NIC: This subject repository includes materials in all areas of medicine; including biomedical, medical informatics, dentistry, nursing and pharmaceutical sciences. The site includes material published going back over 50 years. A RSS feed detailing the latest submissions is available, along with a tutorial for new users.

Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals: Publishes peer-reviewed, open-access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles.

PubMed: Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.

Repository at Institute of Mathematics and Informatics: This site provides access to the journal output of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The interface is in English.

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC): This is a subject based repository, that mirrors the data held on the PubMed Central site. Some material is currently unavailable on this mirror site due to publisher restrictions, although bibliographic entries and links to the parent site are given. In addition this site acts as an Open Access repository for peer-reviewed research from researchers who have been funded by the UKPMC Funders Group - submitted via the UK Manuscript Submission System. A range of supporting guidance and background information areavailable on this site.

University of Washington Structural Informatics Group Publications (UW-SIG Publications): Subject based institutional repository for materials produced or associated with this structural biological computing research group. Not all items are available as full text, and are only displayed as bibliographic entries on the site. In addition to the search and browse functions conference papers are highlighted for the years 1998-2004.

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Finding Books & Media

Books

• IUCAT is IUPUI's online catalog
• Search for print and electronic books in IUCAT

Enter IUCAT. From the home search page, start with simple keyword searches using general concepts connected with AND (e.g. programming AND Linux). If you have logged in to IUCAT, you can use the Request Delivery system to request that a book available at another IU library, but not available here, be sent here for you to pick up.

Want to browse the stacks? Check out these call number ranges in University Library for...

• Knowledge management; data mining and analysis: HD 30.2-HD 30.215 (3rd Floor)
• Graphic design; game graphics: NC 978-NC 1000 (3rd Floor)
• Mathematics: QA (4th Floor)
• Computational science: QA 75-QA 76 (4th Floor)
• Mathematical biology: QH 323-QH 324 (4th Floor)
• Biophysics: QH 505 (4th Floor)
• Molecular biology (data processing): QH 506 (4th Floor)
• Neurophysiology and neuropsychology: QP 351-QP 495 (4th Floor)
• Proteomics: QP 551.L-QP 551.P (4th Floor)
• Computer applications to medicine: R 858-R 859.7 (4th Floor)
• Computer graphics; image processing: T 385 (4th Floor)
• Computer vision; image analysis: TA 1630-TA 1650 (4th Floor)
• Virtual environments; information visualization; pattern recognition: TK 7882.I6 (4th Floor)

eBooks

Reference Materials

Online Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Handbooks: 

Major online resources

Annual Reviews: Authoritative, analytical resource "...synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field" on an annual basis for a variety of scientific and social science disciplines. IUPUI provides extensive current and historical access for the life, health, and medical sciences. Titles include Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genomics and Human Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Physiology. Searches can be done by title, across the collection or by subject series (e.g. Biomedical Life Sciences). To customize your search, from the Search interface, choose Publications pull-down menu: Return reviews published in. New

Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Combines scholarly content with thousands of video clips, images, and animations.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Large collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias. Search by individual title, across the collection (Basic Search), or by subject (Advanced Search: limit results by subject area). Subject collections include Arts (e.g. filmakers and the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film); Business (e.g. e-commerce); Education (e.g. applications of information and communication technology); General Reference (e.g. acronyms and abbreviations); Law (e.g. survey of state laws); Science; Social Science (e.g. bioethics resources and The Healthcare System; and Technology. 

McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2007): McGraw Hill's "flagship" technology reference title. Please see link within the Science subject collection at webpage: Gale Virtual Reference Library. The Encyclopedia "covers the latest developments" in topics in theoretical and applied science and technology, including cellular and molecular biology. New     

Oxford Reference Online: Large collection of high quality, up-to-date dictionaries; search by individual title, subject collection or across the collection to obtain entries cross-referenced by discipline. Includes terms, symbols, processes, and entry-level web links etc. for subjects such as Arts and Architecture, incl. modern design; Performing Arts; Biological Sciences, incl. biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics; Computing, incl. databases, networks, and multimedia; Physical Sciences & Mathematics, incl. statistics terms and distributions. 

Mathematics and Writing Tools 

• Advanced Multivariate Statistics with Matrices; by Kollo and von Rosen (Springer 2005) 
• Analysis of Variance and Functional Measurement: A Practical Guide; by Weiss (Oxford U. Press 2006)
• Applied Statistics: Using SPSS, Statistica, MATLAB, and R, by Marques de Sá (Springer 2007)
• Bootstrap Methods: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers, 2nd ed.; by Chernick (Wiley 2008)
• Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd ed.; by Agresti (Wiley 2002)
• Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis (U. of Chicago Press 2005)
• Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers (U. of Chicago Press 2004)
• Constrained Clustering: Advances in Algorithms, Theory, and Applications; ed. by Basu, et al. (CRC 2009)
• The Craft of Research (U. of Chicago Press 2003)
• Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial; by Sivia (Oxford U. Press 2006; online and in stacks)
• Data Mining Methods and Models; by Larose (Wiley 2006) 
• Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data: A Model Comparison Perspective; by Maxwell and Delaney (Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. 2004)
• Discrete Multivariate Analysis : Theory and Practice; by Bishop, et al. (Springer 2007) 
• Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists; by Lynch (Springer 2007) 
• Introduction to Bayesian Analysis: Theory and Methods; ed. by Ghosh, et al. (Springer 2006)
• Introduction to Bayesian Statistics; by Koch (Springer 2007)
• Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R; by Sarkar (Springer 2008)
• Longitudinal Data Analysis; by Hedeker (Wiley 2006)
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Innovations and Applications; ed. by Kendall, et al. (World Scientific 2005)
• Methods and Applications of Linear Models: Regression and the Analysis of Variance, 2nd ed.; by Hocking (Wiley 2003)
• Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data; ed. by Walls and Schafer (Oxford U. Press 2006)
• Modern Multivariate Statistical Techniques: Regression, Classification, and Manifold Learning; by Izenman (Springer 2008)
• Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies: Strategies for Bayesian Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis; by Daniels and Hogan (Chapman & Hall/ CRC 2008)
• Nonparametric Regression Methods for Longitudinal Data Analysis: Mixed-Effects Modeling Approaches; by Wu and Zhang (Wiley 2006)
• Optimum Experimental Designs, with SAS; by Atkinson, et al. (Oxford U. Press 2007)
• R Book; by Crawley (Wiley 2007)
• Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models; by Vittinghoff, et al. (Springer 2005)
• SAS for Mixed Models, 2nd ed.; by Littell, et al. (SAS Institute 2006)
• SPSS for Intermediate Statistics: Use and Interpretation; by Leech, et al. (Lawrence Erlbaum 2005)
• Structural Equation Modeling: A Bayesian Approach; by Lee (Wiley 2007)

Sample eBooks - New Media

Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour (Thorogood 2003)

Sample eBooks - Informatics 

• Advanced Data Mining Technologies in Bioinformatics; ed. by Hsu (IGI 2006 online and in stacks) 
• Advanced Information Systems Engineering, International Conference (Springer, incl. volumes publ. from 1997 to 2009) New 
• Bioanalytical Chemistry; by Mikkelsen & Cortón (Wiley 2004) 
• Bioinformatics; by Mathura, et al. (2009; access via Springer ebook collection link, given below)   
• Biological Database Modeling; ed. by Chen and Sidhu (Artech House 2008 online and in stacks)
• Chemical Biophysics: Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Systems; by Beard & Qian (Cambridge U. Press 2008) 
• Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling:Volume 1: Basic Characterization; ed. by Xu, et al. (Springer 2007) 
• Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling: Vol. 2: Structure Prediction; ed. by Xu, et al. (Springer 2007 in Stacks)
• Computer Ethics: A Case-Based Approach; by Barger (Cambridge U. Press 2008)
• Crystallography Made Crystal Clear: A Guide for Users of Macromolecular Models, 3rd ed.; by Rhodes (Elsevier 2006) 
• Data Mining and Medical Knowledge Management: Cases and Applications; ed. by Berka, et al. (IGI 2009) New 
• Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM); by Pianykh (2008; access via Springer ebook collection link)
• Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security; ed. by Quigley (IGI 2008) New
• Emerging Topics and Technologies in Information Sytems; ed. by Lytras & Ordonez de Pablos (IGI 2009) New
• Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology; ed. by Marshall, et al. (IGI 2006)
• Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction; ed. by Ghaoui (IGI 2006)
• Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology; ed by Khosrow-Pour (IGI 2009)
• Evaluation Methods in Biomedical Informatics; ed. by Hannah and Ball (Springer 2006) 
• Evolution of the Web in Artificial Intelligence Environments; ed. by Nayak, et al. (2008; access via Springer ebook collection link)
• Grid Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; ed. by Talbi and Zomaya (Wiley 2008)
• Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine; ed. by Lazakidou (IGI 2006)
• Handbook of Research on Knowledge-intensive Organizations; ed. by Jemielniak & Kociatkiewicz (Information Science Reference 2009) New 
• Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation; ed. by Zaphiris & Kurniawan (IGI 2007)  
• Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design; by Stanton, et al. (Ashgate Pub. 2005)
• Information Retrieval in Biomedicine: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Integration; ed. by Prince & Roche (IGI 2009) New
• Introduction to Chemoinformatics, Rev. ed.; by Leach and Gillet (2007; can access via the Springer ebook collection)
• Knowledge Structures for Communications in Human-Computer Systems: General Automata-Based; by Koenig (Wiley 2007) 
• Large Scale Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks: From Information Technology to Finance and Natural Science; ed. by Caldarelli & Vespignani (World Scientific 2007)
• Practical Bioinformatics; ed. by Bujnicki  (2008; can access via the Springer ebook collection)
• Proteins: Structure and Function; by Whitford (Wiley 2005)
• Springer's Handbook of Enzymes, 2nd edition, incl. 19 volumes publ. from 2005 to 2009 New  
• STAT-USA Companion to International Marketing: Highlighting Accessibly-Designed Information and Communications Technology (2007)
• Systems Bioinformatics: An Engineering Case-Based Approach; ed. by Alterovitz and Ramoni (Artech House 2007 online and in stacks)
• Systems Biology: Genomics; ed. by Rigoutsos & Stephanopoulos (Oxford U. Press 2007 online and in stacks) 
• Systems Biology: Networks, Models, and Applications; ed. by Rigoutsos & Stephanopoulos (Oxford U. Press 2007 online and in stacks)
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer; by Meadows (Earthscan 2008)

Springer ebook collection: Access resources mentioned above, and other Springer ebooks from 2005 through 2007, including some from 2008 and 2009. 

Print Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Handbooks*

General

• Computer Review: Knowledge Economy Market and Technology Directory. Includes Daily Online Updates (REF TK 7885.A1 C56 2008) New
• Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia (Oxford U. Press REF HM 846 .S43 2005)

New Media

• Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes: Music, Film, Visual Arts, Dance, Theater (Schirmer Books REF NX 456 .K67 2000)
• History of Modern Design (Prentice Hall NK1175 .R35 2004)
• Oxford Dictionary of Modern Design (REF NK 1165.W66 2004)
• Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac (REF P 88.8.P57 2008; select content available online via IUCAT link) New
• Who's Who in Animated Cartoons (Applause REF NC 1765.L357 2006)
• Who's Who in Design (Essen: REF NC998.4 .W46 v.3 2007 or stacks NC998.4 .W46 v.2 2003)

Informatics

• Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis (U. of Chicago Press REF T11 .M484 2005)  
• Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers ( U. of Chicago Press REF T11 .M485 2004)
• Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security (IGI Global REF HM 851 .E555 2008) New
• Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics (Sage REF HA29 .S2363 2007 v.1 - v.3) New
• Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science (Routledge: REF QA427 .E53 2005)
• Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare (2009) New
• How to Write and Illustrate Scientific Papers (Cambridge University Press REF T11 .G86 2008) New
• Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac (REF HD 9994 U5 P68 2008; select content available online via IUCAT link) New
• Reporting Results: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists (Cambridge U. Press T11 .V358 2008) New

* REF denotes the library's "reference" collection on the 2nd level. Volumes can be checked out on a short-term basis by faculty. Other items are located in the 4th level (stacks) and typically can be checked out.

Reference Shelf

Also, try taking a look at the University Library Reference Shelf.

Organizations & Associations

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE): Founded in 1981, AACE is "an international, not-for-profit, educational organization with the mission of advancing Information Technology in Education and E-Learning research, development, learning, and its practical application".

Assocation for Computing Machinery (ACM): "The world's largest educational and scietific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.  ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources".

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): "A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology".

Web Resources

Open Access Resources:

BieColl - Bielefeld Electronic Collections: This site is an institution-based repository for conference proceedings from Universität Bielefeld, Germany. The site interface is available in both English and German. At the time of last review, this repository only contained conferences on informatics and computing.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. An article search across DOAJ content is available via the left tab: Find Articles.

DROPS (Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server): From the Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Center for Informatics, Germany, this site provides access to documents from both internal and external seminars and conferences. The interface is in English.

Informatics@Edinburgh - Reports Series: This is a subject based institutional repository site with papers from members of the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. The interface is restricted to a simple series of Web page lists of papers by title, author and speciality institute. Not all the papers are available, although full bibliographic references are given. Many reports are not available on the site, but are linked to external Open Access and some commercially published locations. As such the ability to access some of these later varieties of information will be restricted by the local subscription and access rights of the reader.

IUBio Archive: An Indiana University product, this site is a subject based repository for open source software and datasets for use in the field of bioinformatics. A subsidiary repository (IUBio Software Archive) duplicates the software portion of this repository. A mirror site of large datasets exists. The site has a number of subsection search interfaces to allow for querying of specific portions of the information collected on this site.

IUScholarWorks: Another Indiana University resource, this site is an university repository providing access to the publication output of the institution. As such only a limited number of departments have deposited materials so far researchers working in African studies, Folklore, History & Philosophy, Social Informatics and Library & Information Science have deposited materials. Registered users can set up email alerts to notify them of newly added relevant content.

OpenMED@NIC: This subject repository includes materials in all areas of medicine; including biomedical, medical informatics, dentistry, nursing and pharmaceutical sciences. The site includes material published going back over 50 years. A RSS feed detailing the latest submissions is available, along with a tutorial for new users.

Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals: Publishes peer-reviewed, open-access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles.

PubMed: Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.

Repository at Institute of Mathematics and Informatics: This site provides access to the journal output of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The interface is in English.

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC): This is a subject based repository, that mirrors the data held on the PubMed Central site. Some material is currently unavailable on this mirror site due to publisher restrictions, although bibliographic entries and links to the parent site are given. In addition this site acts as an Open Access repository for peer-reviewed research from researchers who have been funded by the UKPMC Funders Group - submitted via the UK Manuscript Submission System. A range of supporting guidance and background information areavailable on this site.

University of Washington Structural Informatics Group Publications (UW-SIG Publications): Subject based institutional repository for materials produced or associated with this structural biological computing research group. Not all items are available as full text, and are only displayed as bibliographic entries on the site. In addition to the search and browse functions conference papers are highlighted for the years 1998-2004.