Computer Science

Finding Articles and Conference Papers

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
A great place to start looking for articles. Cal Poly has most of the sources listed in this database so you can read them immediately. Use the "Find It" link on the full record display to see if it is in paper form in the library or out on the web.
Compendex (in Engineering Village 2)
This search engine lists much, much more of the papers in Engineering than the Applied Science & Technology Abstracts. In addition to journal articles, this database lists papers that were delivered at engineering conferences. You must check each listing you find with PolyCat to see which are available at Cal Poly. Those items not available at Cal Poly can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan Service.
IEL (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library)
IEL is the IEEE's digital library of all their publications. Remember: Cal Poly only has online access to the journals, not the conference papers or standards.
ACM Digital Library
This library lists all the journal articles and conference papers published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Cal Poly only has paper subscriptions to ACM journals; check Poly Cat for call numbers.
CiteSeer: Research Index
Scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. Developed at the NEC Research Institute
Google Scholar
A version of Google that is supposed to return only scholarly sources
Scirus
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies.
Computer Science Preprint Server.

Finding Books

PolyCat
This is Cal Poly Library's own database that lists what is available here at Cal Poly. It lists all our books, government documents, as well as over 50,000 senior projects and masters theses.
LINK+
This database brings together the catalogs of over 30 libraries in California. The main advantage of this database is the ability to place an order to have items in other libraries delivered to Cal Poly for your use.
Melvyl
This database lists over 12 million items contained in the libraries of the University of California system and the California State Library. Melvyl includes primarily books, but it lists many (but not all) publications from U. S. federal agencies (like the Defense Department, Energy Department and NASA). Any item you find in Melvyl that is not available at Cal Poly can be ordered through the Kennedy Library's Interlibrary Loan.
WorldCat
This database is the largest of the book databases. It includes books plus videos, web resources, CD-ROMs, and many other kinds of documents. Again, most things you find listed in the database will have to be ordered through our Interlibrary Loan service.
Google Book Search.
Searches words inside books, not just title and subject words. You must check each title in PolyCAT to see if Cal Poly owns a copy of the book.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

Call Numbers

Subject Call Number
Online information systemsQA76.54 – QA76.57
MultimediaQA76.575
Mobile computingQA76.59
Programming languagesQA76.6 – QA76. 73
Software engineeringQA76.75 – QA76. 765
AlgorithmsQA76.9.A43
Computer architectureQA76.9.A73
SimulationQA76.9.C65
Database designQA76.9.D26
Data miningQA76.9.D343
Data structuresQA76.9.D35
Human-computer interactionQA76.9.H85
Computer logicQA76.9.L63
Natural language processingQA76.9.N38
System designQA76.9.S88
Computer networksTK5103.7 – TK5105.9
Computer engineeringTK7885.A1 – TK7895.T73

Algorithms

Collected Algorithms of the ACM
Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems
The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository