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Kinds of documents:
patents: government granted license to an invention;
standards: agreed upon methodology: e.g. 802.11;
journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine;
conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed);
technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem;
books
reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties;
manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems;
monographs: general topics;
technical specifications: how a device or component works, e.g. circuit diagrams;
code library: database of source code listings or linkable subroutines;
Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication;
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RefWorks can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with work to create footnotes & bibliographies. If logging in from home, you need to use RWYorku group code.
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by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
by journal title: journal of the acm
by subject: Java
by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel processing
by keyword: concurrent and programming and java
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IEEE Xplore - all IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS.
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Safari - over 200 online computer/technical books on a wide range of subjects.
Books24x7 - 1000s of searchable full text books in computing and engineering.
Synthesis - amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics.
Use the Internet wisely.
Using
Google as a scholarly research tool:
example: concurrent programming
example: concurrent programming locking
example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
strategy: find good portal sites
strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content
DBLP - good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals.
Citeseer - indexes the free web but a bit out of date.
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Google Scholar – good tool, but a bit unreliable while in Beta release. Generally quite good for CS, especially to find conference papers not in any of the databases to which we subscribe.
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