Computer Science: Articles

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ArXiv
- Open access e-eprint repository covering Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Nonlinear Sciences, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics
Access: No restrictions.
Coverage: 1991-Present
ACM Digital Library
Full-text collection of all ACM publications including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books. The ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database with a focus on the field of computing is included in the ACM Digital Library.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1985-present (Conference proceedings before 1991 may be citation only)
BCC Research
Provides global market research reports which cover changes driven by science and technology. The reports include detailed market size forecasts which incorporate the major economic, scientific and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical and high technology organizations.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
IEEE Xplore
- Access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- Contains Full-text IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and all current IEEE standards since 1988, plus select content back to 1950
- Full text access to documents from major publication, including charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and illustrative material
- Content from scientific journals, conference proceedings, technical standards, eBooks and educational courses
- Unlimited access to a subset of the INSPEC bibliographic and abstract database
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1988 - (Select content from 1950 on)
Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
An international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. The database currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. The major areas of coverage include artificial intelligence, information science, librarianship and technical services.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1969-
MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews on the Web)
- Reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for mathematical science literature
- Access to the journal Mathematical Reviews from 1940 to the present
- MathSciNet, Mathematical Reviews, and Current Mathematical Publications are all produced by the American Mathematical Society
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1940-present
Scopus
A large citation and abstracting database providing comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed journal and conference literature, with links to full-text where available through the library; includes scientific, technical, medical, social science and arts and humanities disciplines and indexes over 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers including over 340 book series. Like Web of Science, Scopus allows researchers to perform citation searches to see how many times a work has been cited, by whom, and to rank searches by times cited, for the period 1996 -present, as well as its curated index of over 375 scientific web pages and over 24 million patents.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Web of Science (ISI)
Opens to search the Core Collection which includes Science; Social Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Conference Proceedings; Book; and Emerging Sources Citation Indexes; Current Chemical Reactions; Index Chemicus. Provides access to BIOSIS, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, KCI Korean Citations Index, Russian Citation Index, SciELO, and Zoological Record. An All Databases search option is available.
Web of Science Training Materials

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1955 -
Zentralblatt Math
Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH) provides abstracts and reviews in pure and applied mathematics. The coverage starts in the 18th century and is complete from 1868 to the present by the integration of the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

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Current Contents Connect
A current awareness database providing online access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, and abstracts from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals and relevant websites.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1998-Present