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Proquest Computer Science Collection |
What is it? |
Index primarily for finding journal articles. A premium resource for those who need access to worldwide, comprehensive coverage of computer science topics, ranging from computer security to web commerce. Includes some full-text. Date coverage from 1981 onwards. Updated monthly.
Types of publications covered: scholarly journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.
The Computer Science Collection is created from: Computer and Information Systems Abstracts database (1981 - ) Plus ProQuest Computer Science Journals - covers more than 1,500 discipline-specific publications, many in full text
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What is it for? |
Use primarily to find journal articles in the following subject areas: Artificial intelligence; Computer applications; Computer programming; Computer systems organisation; Computing milieux; Hardware; Information systems; Mathematics of computing; Software engineering
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How to access it |
Login to the Portal and then choose Computing Science Collection (from Proquest) from the A-Z List of Online Resources.
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How to search
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See Successful Search Techniques. There is an Easy Search Option but we recommend selecting the Advanced Search. From the Advanced Search screen select the type of search you wish to conduct from the drop-down box Truncation: use * at the end of a word, e.g., comput* will find computer, computers, computing, etc. Spelling variants: The search is automatically set up to recognise spelling variants of American and British versions of words, for example, a search for behaviour will automatically find behaviour or behavior Use Field searching to be precise: e.g., type in java and select Document Title - TI from the drop-down box to find items where java appears in the title of the article;
Thesaurus Search: Because the Computer Science Collection is created from two different databases if you use the Thesaurus option to search you will exclude any records from the database that don't use that thesaurus (or that thesaurus term). It is probably best only to use the Thesaurus option when you are searching at a more specific level on an individual database. Narrow results by option: On each results' page there is an option to narrow your results by various filters. However, using the filters can exclude relevant records. This is because the Computer Science Collection is created from two different each with its own set of filter options. Therefore, you will exclude records from database that doesn't use the same filter options. To narrow your results, it is better to create another search and combine this with your previous searches. Combining searches: searches can be combined by selecting the Folder icon in the top right hand corner, then select the Recent searches. Then type the set numbers to combine searches, for example: 2 and 3 To narrow your search to a specific database:
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Full text? |
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Refworks?
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Records can be downloaded into RefWorks (a software product for managing references and formatting bibliographies). |
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Further help
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Click on the ? mark icon (top righthand side). |