Looking to get started on a project in computer science but don’t know where to begin your research?  Why not try these electronic resources available on findit.lu?

ACM Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library provides access to the full text of articles from journals, newsletters and conference proceedings published by ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. It also has bibliographic citations from other major publishers in computing although not all of these will be available in full-text.

The ACM Digital Library can be searched in two different ways:

1. Click here to connect to the ACM Digital Library and search using its interface. A useful video tutorial produced by the Cannavino Library in New York explains how to use the interface.
2. Add ACM Digital Library to your list of preferred databases and search using the findit.lu portal.  Find out how by clicking here.

IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore is a gateway to the most vital information in the computing and engineering industry with access to journal articles, conference proceedings and standards helping you to advance in computer hardware and software innovation.  Here is just a sampling of IEEE content:

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• IEEE Internet Computing Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
• IEEE Design and Test of Computers Magazine
• IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine
• IEEE Computer Architecture Letters

Standards

• 1364-2006: IEEE Standard for Verilog Hardware Description Language
• 1076-2008: IEEE Standard for VHDL Language Reference Manual
• 830-1998: IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications
• 829-1998: IEEE Standard for Software Test Documentation

Conference Proceedings

• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• IEEE Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
• IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering
• International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

IEEE Xplore can be accessed directly by clicking here or can be searched directly within the findit.lu portal. Find out how by clicking here.

Video tutorials on how to use IEEE Xplore are available on the IEEE website here.

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete (CASC) covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges & research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,200 academic journals, professional publications with full text available for more than 1,000 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context.

As for the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore, CASC can be searched directly within its own interface on Ebsco (click here) or by adding it to your list of preferred databases and search using the findit.lu portal.  Find out how by clicking here.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Springer e-Books

The series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) from Springer, has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching – quickly, informally, and at a high level.

All volumes are published simultaneously in printed version and electronically, most of them in time for conferences, and selected titles in the print library have also been added to the digital library. The LNCS digital library holds over 35,000 papers written by over 50,000 individual scientists and professionals.

Also available is access to the full Springer e-book collection from 2005 to present day.

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Looking for information regarding works of art and their artists?  Why not try these electronic resources available on findit.lu?

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (AKL)

The database Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online is the world’s most contemporary, reliable and extensive reference work on artists. It contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1 million artists.

The database offers biographies in full text from A to Z. The greatly extended scope is due to the incorporation of the renowned Thieme-Becker/Vollmer encyclopaedia, the Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon and the Lexikon der Künstlerinnen into the database. The number of full-text biographies doubled, as did the number of articles appearing not only in German but also in the original language.

The database now offers articles “online first”. This means that the articles are published online immediately, often long before they appear in print. Several thousand art history sources are evaluated on an ongoing basis for the database, and the content is continually updated and expanded.

ARTbibliographies Modern

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s.

ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artist’s books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway users can access—and simultaneously cross-search—an expanding range of Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.

Oxford Art Online provides complete access to Grove Art Online, the foremost scholarly art encyclopaedia, covering both Western and non-Western art. The content of Grove Art encompasses all aspects of visual culture. It features articles about topics as varied as Fauvism and Frida Kahlo, bibliographies for further research, and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford’s partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations. Grove Art is a living resource, with scholars and specialists from around the world continually reviewing and updating existing content and contributing new articles. In addition to the vast number of entries on the visual arts, Grove Art features a host of exceptional learning resources that organize the content for use in art and art history classrooms, making Grove Art an essential source for scholars and students alike.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences

JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.

The 185 titles in the JSTOR Art & Art History Collection span the artistic cultures of many different countries as well as time periods.  A sampling of titles includes:

• American Art Journal
• Archives of Asian Art
• Berliner Museen
• Fine Arts Journal
• Kunst des Orients
• Modern Art

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Need to do some research in the psychology domain? Why not try these electronic resources available on findit.lu?

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

PsycARTICLES is recognized worldwide as a leading full text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines. Featuring a continuously growing number of significant and highly regarded periodicals, PsycARTICLES is an unmatched resource for information in behavioural science.

PsycARTICLES can be accessed from within the National Library of Luxembourg, the University of Luxembourg, the Centre de Recherche Gabriel Lippmann, the Centre de Recherche Henri Tudor and the Centre de Recherche Santé.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO is an expansive abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioural sciences and mental health, making it an ideal discovery and linking tool for scholarly research in a host of disciplines.

PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.

PsycINFO can be accessed from within the National Library of Luxembourg, the University of Luxembourg, the Centre de Recherche Gabriel Lippmann, the Centre de Recherche Henri Tudor and the Centre de Recherche Santé.

Oxford University Press Journals

Oxford Journals is a division of Oxford University Press, which is a department of Oxford University. Oxford Journals publishes well over 230 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations.

Their mission, as part of the University, is to bring the highest quality research to the widest possible audience.

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Francis

The FRANCIS database is created by the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France and is an invaluable resource for research libraries. FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences. Its broad subject areas and international scope make it an ideal stand-alone social science database, as well as a suitable complement for more specialised databases. FRANCIS is strong in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology. The database contains approximately 2 million records, with abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers and other documents.

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