Journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Learn more about ACM.
Index of journal articles from all engineering disciplines and applied sciences: computer science, biotechnology, industrial chemistry, applied physics and math. Also includes conference proceedings and papers from professional societies. Read more about this resource and watch how-to videos. Users can also access GeoRef and Knovel through Compendex.
Journals, conference proceedings, and standards from IEEE. Journals and conference proceedings from IET. Over 400 ebooks from IEEE/Wiley and River Publishers. Watch a how-to video.
Conference proceedings series covering developments in all areas of computer science from 1973 to present. Includes subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI).
This ebook and video collection covers a wide range of IT topics: software development, system administration, security, business, web and mobile, and career development.
Technical reports are publications written to present the results of research or projects performed under contract with a government agency or a corporate body. Technical reports most commonly encountered by students are from agencies such as NASA or the Department of Energy.
For more information and some history, the Science Reference Services of the Library of Congress has a useful overview of technical reports: About Technical Reports and Standards.
Technical reports are sometimes described as "gray (or grey) literature." Gray literature is a term used to describe publications that fall outside the mainstream publication areas such as journals and books.
Examples of gray literature are reports, white papers, preprints, reprints, leaflets, pamphlets, manuals, etc. Descriptions of gray literature sometimes include other publications such as patents, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations.
For more information, refer to the Technical Reports Guide:
When creating your project, remember to cite everything you did not write / create / think up on your own, including images / graphs / charts / maps / datasets you borrow from online sources. Below are some tools to help you cite your sources correctly.
To see examples, visit the following websites:
To learn more about the importance of academic integrity, please see
Now that you've finished watching the video, take this quiz to complete the tutorial. You will need a score of at least 75% to pass. A passing score will result in a certificate screen appearing, which you can screenshot to save a copy for your professor if needed.
At the very least your annotated bibliography should contain a correctly formatted citation for each source and a brief description of that source, usually about a paragraph. This paragraph should review the following:
