Computer Information Systems Research Guide

ABI/Inform Complete

A comprehensive business database that features 2950 full-text business periodicals and news sources, ABI/INFORM covers competitive and product information, corporate strategies, management techniques, and business and economic conditions.

Coverage: 1923 - present  | Format: full-text; citations; abstracts | Search Tips

Business Source Elite

A business research database, Business Source Elite provides full-text for nearly 1100 business publications and economics journals, including 500 peer-reviewed publications. The database also includes an expanded PDF back file of 150 titles, dating back to 1985, and 10,000 detailed company profiles from Datamonitor. Subject areas include finance, marketing, accounting, sales, banking, international business, and more.

Coverage: 1985 - present  | Format: full-text; abstracts; citations | Search Tips

ScienceDirect

The Science Direct online journal collection provides access to full text articles from over 2,000 peer reviewed journals, covering scientific, medical, and technical information published in 24 fields of science.  The library has access to 802 titles within our subscription.  The green icon
[ ] indicates you can view the full text of a document.  The white icon [ ] indicates you can view the citation and abstract of the document. 

Coverage: varies  | Format: full-text; citations; abstracts | Search Tips

SpringerLink

An online journal collection, SpringerLink provides access to scientific, technological, and medical journals, books, book series, and reference works.  SpringerLink contains 1250 peer reviewed journals.  The green square icon [ ] indicates you have access to the content.  The half full green square [ ] indicates you have access to some content.  The white square icon
[ ] indicates you have no access to the content.

Coverage: 1997 - present  | Format: full-text; citations; abstracts | Search Tips

Need additional resources? Try the General Research Guide. This guide lists multidisciplinary resources, which cover a variety of subject content areas.

Print Journals:

All print journals, to which the library subscribes, are listed in the online library catalog. To look for a specific journal, search by TITLE. If you are unsure of the exact title, search by KEYWORD to find the title you want.

Electronic Journals:

All electronic journals in the library's collection are listed in the Magazine, Newspaper, and Journal Finder. You can search for a specific title by keyword or browse an A-to-Z list by title or subject. 

Books:

Use the online library catalog to find books. Books may be searched by keyword, title, author, or subject.

To find a specific book, search by TITLE. If your search is unsuccessful or if you are unsure of the exact title, try a KEYWORD search. To find books written by a specific person, search by AUTHOR. To find a book about a specific person or topic, search by SUBJECT. Subject searching requires the use of Library of Congress Subject Headings. If your subject search is unsuccessful, try a KEYWORD search or consult a librarian at daviska@uamont.edu.

Library of Congress Call Number Ranges for Computer Information Systems:

QA 75.5 - 76.95------Computer Science
TK  5105 - 6720------Telecommunication

The library's collection of books is organized by subject. Once you locate a call number on the shelves, you can browse other books in the area, as they will contain the same subject.

Borrow Items From Other Libraries:

If the library does not own a publication that you need, we can borrow books and obtain copies of journal article from other libraries.  Submit an interlibrary loan request form online.  Materials may be supplied for free or a fee.  You will generally receive the item within two weeks.  

Selected Internet Resources:

Internet Public Library: Programming
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/com70.00.00/

Founded by the University of Michigan School of Information, the Internet Public Library is an extensive directory of websites in the areas of arts and humanities, business, computers, education, entertainment, health, government, science and technology, social science, ready reference, and special collections. The site is housed at the Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology. - Accessed March 10, 2008.

Web Design References
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/

This site is dedicated to providing resources pertaining to standards based web design and development.  Topics include accessibility, associations, books, cascading style sheets, color, Dreamweaver, evaluation and testing, events and conferences, flash, information architecture, JavaScript, navigation and labeling, PHP, sites and blogs, standards, tools, typography, usability, and xml.  Web Design References is managed by Laura L. Carlson, Information Technology Systems and Services, at the University of Minnesota Duluth.  - Accessed March 10, 2008.

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Lanee Dunlap,
Computer Information Systems Librarian

870-460-1481
dunlapl@uamont.edu