Free access to all AU students and staff: From outsite AU-campus: either by VPN - for installation see http://www.cs.au.dk/tutor/wiki/VPN or through the proxy-server at the State and University Library: or use your CPR-number and library pincode from State and University Library for login. Not registred as library user yet ? - click here
E-books
ebrary - a very large collection of online books, requires a special Ebrary-reader (download from Ebrary homepage). The complete book can be read on screen, You can print 5 pages at a time but no more than 40 pages per session
Wikibooks:Computer science bookshelf - more or less complete textbook-type texts on many CS-subjects
Full-text collections - articles, reports, working papers
ACM Digital Library + Guide to Computing Literature
ACM Digital Library is a full text collection of every article published by ACM, including over 50 years of archives. The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works from ACM and other major publishers in computing with over 950,000 entries
Search tips:
- Use + in front of word(stem)(s) if a search term must appear, use - if a term must not appear on a page
- Use wildcard: * in any position except at the beginning of words
- Enclose a phrase or full name in double quotes to search for that exact phrase. Wildcards are not allowed inside quotes
- Click single titles in "Cited" to find other papers citing a reference: the list "Citings"
- Capitalize proper nouns to search for specific people, places, products
- A maximum of 200 hits are displayed. Default sorting order is "relevance", consider also sorting order "Publication date" if you can't limit your search (by adding more +words or enclosing phrases in double quotes)
References to RefWorks:
- From full record choose "Display Formats": BibTex
- Copy and paste directly into RefWorks "Import Data from the following Text" window + Import filter: BiBTex
Full text archive of most IEEE and IET publications: conference proceedings, journals, magazines back to 1988 and all IEEE Standards
Search tips:
Use wildcard: * in any position except at the beginning of words. Default sorting order Relevance.
Export to RefWorks:
Mark relevant citations. Use [Download Citations] + Include: Citation & Abstract + Download: RefWorks (direct export to RefWorks). If direct export doesn't work, choose format: Reference ManagerEndNote, ProCite, Ref(erence) Man(ager) and import the downloaded file through import filter RIS.
CiteSeer | CiteSeerX (alpha)
- or search the CiteSeer-archive through Google (by including the phrase: site:citeseer.ist.psu.edu)
CiteSeer indexes PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web and provides:
- A citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation
- Show the context of citations to a given paper
- Automatic notification of new citations to given papers, and new papers matching a user profile
- Locates related documents using citation and word based measures and displays an active and continuously updated bibliography for each document
- Full-text documents available in both pdf and PostScript-format
- Supports Boolean AND, OR, NOT. Adjacent words default to one word proximity. Automatic stemming - Wildcards not supported
- Active bibliography: the documents cited by the current paper, that are ALSO cited by other papers (indexed by CiteSeer)
- CiteSeer automatically links to other metadata resources including ACM Portal records (see above) plus DBLP (see below)
Export references to RefWorks:
- Under BibTeX entry: mark and copy the bibliographic record and paste it into RefWorks "Import Data from the following Text" window + Import filter: BiBTex
Google Scholar
Searches a.o. the full text of all journals published by 45+ publishers
Setup for direct export to RefWorks (only one reference at a time): Google Scholar preferences
- Mark (bottom of page: Bibliography Manager > Show links to import citations into RefWorks + [Save preferences]
- Every reference in Google Scholar now shows a "Import into RefWorks" link. Google Scholar always open RefWorks in "Edit mode", so you can add or modify text.
- Google Scholar also links to library.dk for "whole books".
- References to journal papers may be very crude, the same reference with more complete bibliographic data, abstract a.o. can often be found in one of the other databases mentioned below
Bibliographies - electronic and printed journals
SCOPUS , 1996-
The largest multidisciplinary bibliographic databases ever assembled. It indexes and abstracts more scientific, technical, medical and social science literature than any other database.
- Every record contains a full and extended bibliography with counts and links to all more recent citations enabling both forwards and backwards citation searching
- Limit large answer sets to Document type and/or Subject area, sort answer set according to number og times cited: Cited by
- [Full text]-buttons for most records, if not: Use [Abstract+Refs] and [View at Publisher], if not: [SFX] - will search for ISSN/journal title in http://library.dk
- Attempts to create profiles for individual authors. A comprehensive author search must at present be performed through Basic or Advanced Search
- Indexes patents (through SCIRUS) registered by European Patent Office (EPO), US Patent Office (USPO) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (how to obtain full-text patent documents, see: Patents ).
- Indexes websites from academic and technical websites (through SCIRUS)
- Covers both journals, web-documents (through SCIRUS) and patents (Patent record available from the European Patent Office, US Patent Office and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ) - for details about how to get access to full patent documents, see Patents
Exporting references to RefWorks:
- Mark all relevant references, click Output and choose: Export Format: RefWorks direct export AND Output: Abstract format OR Specify fields to be exported
Web of Science (WoS) , 1900- and Derwent Innovations Index, 1963-
Covers the 350+ most influential computer science journals (incl. Lecture Notes in Computer Science) and several hundred journals in related fields. Special features:
- Search for "Related records" to known articles
- Search for papers citing an older paper, book a.o.
- Full-text linking to e-articles or SFX-linking to e- and p-journals in the State and University Library catalogue or other danísh libraries (bibliotek.dk)
- General Search: words in title, abstract, keywords (computer generated), author names (controlled). Boolean AND, OR, NOT. Right hand truncation of wordstems with *
- Cited Reference Search: best done with first author + initials and Publication year – select possible variants
- Patents (full-text documents may be obtained through Google Patents, esp@cenet or WIPO
Export references to RefWorks:
- Mark interesting records from summary page(s), [ADD TO MARKED LIST] - the [MARKED LIST] icon will only appear efter at least one record has been added
- In [MARKED LIST] choose all relevant fields to include in final record, e.g.: abstracts, addresses, times cited
- [SAVE TO FILE] in "Field tagged format"
- Import file of references (default name: savedrecs.txt) into RefWorks through import filter: ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
INSPEC , 1968-
INSPEC on the Web of Knowledge paltform with a very comprehensive coverage of computer science literature.
- Right hand truncation with * - can also be used to replace any number of characters in a word. Use wildcard (?) to replace a single character. Terms are automatically stemmed, except in the author field To search for an exact phrase or phrases containing stop words (and, or, not, near), enclose terms in quotation marks. Browse the author look-up index to select all variations of an author's name: Smith, A. OR Smith, A.J. OR Smith, Alan J.
- INSPEC-records are indexed with controlled terms from INSPEC Thesaurus: Right hand menu: Refine Results: Controlled Vocabulary or Classification codes
- Links to full text of IEEE-publications may not work, use IEEE Xplore instead
Export references to RefWorks:
- Mark interesting records, click [DOWNLOAD] and select: RefWorks direct import
- RefWorks will import into "Last imported"-folder from which you can select any number and transfer them to existing or new folder(s)
DBLP, Computer Science Bibliography
Cover 225 leading computer science journals and several thousand conference proceedings, reports, books, a.o.
Search tips:
- Search Author names as they are spelled, including letters like æ, ö a.o. Searching for only a part of an author name will give you a list of possible names to choose from
- In every bibliography several entries are marked "EE" - click it and You will usually get access to the complete paper
- Links to full Table of Contents for the complete conference proceeding volume
Exporting references to RefWorks:
- Click the source-link in the bibliography & TOC > entry: Bib-Tex
- Copy and paste every single record into RefWorks import window. Import filter BibTex
Proquest (formerly CSA Illumnia):
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts 1981-
Electronics and Communications Abstracts 1981-
- Full-text linking to e-articles or SFX-linking to e- and p-journals in the State and University Library catalogue or other danísh libraries (bibliotek.dk)
- Better coverage of research published in Asian journals - english abstracts may be only useful information available
Exporting references to RefWorks:
- Direct export from database to RefWorks
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
A giant collection of references to papers, web-sites, books a.o. covered by one or more of 1400 bibliographies on the internet. Only author and document-title are searchable. App. 10% of the references contain links to full-text document.
Search tips:
- The default logic operator is "OR" (may look strange when results are sorted by year), use '+' and '–' operators to specify ('+')required and ('–')forbidden words. Wildcards: '?' – single letter, and '*' – part of the word (at the end of a word), '~' – specified at the end of a word makes approximate match (allows typos, but takes many seconds to process)
Export to RefWorks:
- Bib-Tex-format link in the upper right corner of references
- Most individual bibliographies are also available in bib-tex-format
- Cut and paste single references into RefWorks import window, larger bibliographies should be saved and imported as a file. Import filter: BibTex
- Use bibliotek.dk to get perfect records for books, reports from danish computer science departments, articles in danish journals
- Setup for exporting references: Select tab: "My bibliotek.dk" and here: Settings: Request and import. Select the option: "Yes please, I would like to be able to import to EndNote or Reference Manager" and save your setup
- Go back to "Search", all relevant records should be "put in basket", when finished searching go to "My basket" and select: "Import selected records to Reference Manager or EndNote" - you will then be able to download a txt-file containg alle selected references that may be imported into RefWorks through RIS-importfilter
Patents. Standards
Google Patents - the easiest way of searching and obtaining US patents
- Search for known patent numbers, e.g.: 6754873 (often cited as US 6.754.873 - must be searched as compact string of numbers only)
- Search for Assignee, e.g.: Google Inc.
- Records include links to Cited patents (and other literature) and Citing patents
- Note: degree of coverage: number of patents, years a.o. is currently not available
Derwent Patent Index - Web of Knowledge platform - advanced search features (not on SB database list)
Other ways of searching patents, incl. Subject classification codes: chem.wikidot.com: Patents
chem.wikidot.com: Standards - how to obtain a DS, ISO, ASTM or ??-standard
Encyclopedias. Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
WikiPedia - probably the most versatile encyclopedia on the net
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Den Store Danske - tidligere Den Store Danske Encyklopædi
Dictionary of Computing | Dictionary of the Internet - Oxford Reference Series
Dictionaries
Ordbogen.com - the best danish-english/english-danish dictionary on the web | Gyldendals (store) Røde Ordbøger |
Answers.com Spelling, pronounciation, words in context, translations into multiple languages
Search engines and selected web-sites
Advanced Search pages for:
Google | Google Scholar | Google Directory - selected websites | Google Books | Google Newsgroups | Google Images
Scirus
Exalead
RefWorks
RefWorks - getting started
Sign up for an individual account - this must be done from a computer within AU-campus IP-range
If you access your RefWorks database(s) from outside AU-campus you will need an additional "Groupcode" (sent with the welcome email from RefWorks - if you need it, please write jk@statsbiblioteket.dk)
Connecting WORD to RefWorks - other wordprocessors are not supported at present:
- Use either the Write-N-Cite plugin (available: RefWorks > Tools) - or:
- Enter the RefWorks-ID in double curly parentheses {{ }} in your WORD-dokument
RefWorks will also format in-text-references and bibliographies saved as .txt or .rtf
In both cases RefWorks will be able format your document according to the chosen style. The result will be a new file of the same type named Final_aa.xxx
RefWorks Tutorial: animations or print |RefWorks Quick Start Guide |
RefWorks Infopage (in danish) - with all the hard-to-find explanations about how-to-do |
Importing references into RefWorks
Single references or small answer sets:
- Direct export to RefWorks from SCOPUS, INSPEC, CSA Bibliographies, Google Scholar
- Copy and paste into RefWorks "Import Data from the following Text" window + appropriate Import filter
- Save answer set as file, use “Import Data from the following Text File” and browse to find the import file + appropriate Import filter
RefWorks will import into "Last imported"-folder from which you can select any reference and transfer them to existing or new folder(s). Duplicates of same reference from different databases (or from different searches in same database) are easily found and eliminated in RefWorks
RefGrabIt get it here - captures bibliographic information from web pages and allows you to import (more or less complete) references for both websites, books (e.g. Amazon) and journal articles (from webpages of full reference in bibliographic database or full homepage of article at publishers website)
RefWorks as RSS-reader: copy URL of RSS-feed to RefWorks > Search > RSS - records will be imported into a temporary folder from which you can select the relevante references to be imported in your RefWorks database
Using RefWorks with LaTex and BibTex
http://libraries.mit.edu/help/refworks/refworkslatexfaq.html | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibtex | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliography_Management
Lars Madsen (2010): INTRODUKTION TIL LATEX - grundlæggende for alle brugere - incl. eksempeloversigt: kode + effekt i færdige dokument. |
Mittelbach & Goossens (2004): The LaTex Companion, 2.ed. Addison Wesley - Paper version
Art of Problemsolving - Latex - huge collection of solutions to common problems | LaTexSearch - a search engine for LaTex-coded formulas in the scientific literature (only Springer publications at the moment)
Library links
Where to get the papers, conference proceedings and books not available through full-text links in databases:
IT LIbrary Katrinebjerg | State and University Library, Århus | library.dk/bibliotek.dk
Exercises | Solutions to exercises | General considerations when constructing a search profile
Comments
Any comments of general interest and specific questions requiring a personal answer are most welcome and should be sent to jk@statsbiblioteket.dk
