Research Hub: Computer Science: Databases

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This guide is designed to help with Computer Science research. Click on the database titles to the right to get started.

Can't find it? We can get it!

The Citation Linker / Find It searches across databases. If the resource is not in our holdings, a Resource Sharing Request will appear.

Core Computer Science library databases

Use these databases to find the best articles from Computer Science journals.

Some databases provide article citations, but not full text. The Find It! button will link to full text across databases. If full text is not available, request it via Interlibrary Loan.

ACM Digital Library
Journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and theses from the Association of Computing Machines. Full text available from 1991.

Vendor Accessibility Statement: https://dl.acm.org/about/accessibility
ScienceDirect
Scholarly articles, mostly in the sciences, though some social sciences. Citations from 1980. Some full text starting in 1993, more full text from 1997.
USENIX
From the Advanced Computing Systems Association. Makes available conference proceedings in computer science, some of which are open access.

ArXiv Search
ArXiv allows anyone to post articles. It is primarily used to post pre-prints of academic papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, and others.

MathSciNet
Covers the world's mathematical literature from 1940.
Business Source Premier - Standard Interface
Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, etc.

Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. Business Source Premier contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Business Source Premier provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals including Academy of Management Journal is available back to 1958, Accounting Review to 1926, Administrative Science Quarterly to 1956, California Management Review to 1958, Industrial & Labor Relations Review to 1947, Journal of Accounting Research to 1963, Journal of Finance to 1946, Journal of Marketing to 1936, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) to 1964, Management Science to 1954, Operations Research to 1956, etc.
IEEE Xplore
NOTE: WSU does not subscribe to this database. You may be able to search for citations, but then you will need to use Find It! at WSU to request the articles through Resource Sharing.