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Online Resources
- Khan Academy
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An extensive library of content for learning, including interactive challenges, assessments, and videos. The library of content covers math and science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics. - SourceForge
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Resource for open source software development and distribution. - Wolfram|Alpha
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A computational search engine that generates answers to factual queries using data sets. - Interaction-Design.org
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Provides access to the "Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction," as well as a number of other open access books, courses, and more. All materials are licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons license. - Codeacademy
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Free resource for self-directed learning. Tracks include JavaScript, HTML/CSS, PHP, Python, Ruby, and API programming.
Article Databases
- CiteSeerX Scientific Literature Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Full-text index of computer science research articles. Allows for citation searching and linking.
- What else should I know? Offered by the NEC Laboratories America and Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and Technology.
- Compendex (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Citations to articles in professional magazines, scholarly journals, and conference proceedings in engineering. 1970-. Updated weekly.
- What else should I know? Links to articles open in a pop-up window, so you will need to deactivate the pop-up blocker on your browser to connect to full text.
- Guide to Computing Literature (ACM) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? A collection of of more than 750,000 citations and abstracts from 3,000+ publishers, including works published by ACM and other publishers. Coverage includes books, journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and technical support. Citations for all ACM published works are included in the Guide.
- IEEE Xplore (IEEE) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Full-text access to IEEE journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings from approximately 125 of the most important IEEE conferences, and selected e-books. Also includes IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the IEEE Conference Proceedings Archive 1936-1999.
- Inspec (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Abstracts and indexing to the world’s scientific and technical literature. Provides coverage from over 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports in the subject areas of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, and production, mechanical engineering, and more.
- What dates are covered? 1969 - Present.
- What else should I know? This database is produced by the IET.
- ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? A collection of journals from the publisher Elsevier and its affiliates. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword. Access to the full content of articles from selected journals is available to URI users. Availability is indicated by a green icon. Other articles may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
- What dates are covered? 1995 - Present.
- Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize article and literature use. Includes journal articles, books, book series, conference papers, and more. Alternative to Web of Science. Indexes close to 35,000 titles.
- Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Access to Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1900-present), and Book Citation Index (2005-present). Contains citations to articles from over 10,000 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
- What else should I know? Searching by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a paper’s impact on current research.
Tech Books Online
- FreeTechBooks
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This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.
- O'Reilly Online Learning This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Technology and business ebooks, case studies, videos, and learning paths.
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