Computer Science 

Interlibrary borrowing — need something the Libraries don’t own? We can get you the article or book you need free of charge within days.

Suggest a purchase — know of a book or journal the MIT Libraries should own? Let us know!

Library beta technology — the MIT Libraries are regularly testing new technology to improve access to their services. Feedback from our users is always welcome.

Copyright and publishing — also known as Scholarly Communication, the MIT Libraries are aggressively involved in promoting the rights of authors and readers. Find out how you can become involved.

Bibliographic software — products like EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero are designed to help you organize your references. MIT librarians regularly teach classes on how to use these tools.

Bioinformatics — bioinformatics, the intersection of computer science and biology, is rapidly becoming a popular field at MIT. The Libraries offer classes in the use of NCBI databases, the most heavily-used bioinformatics tools today.

Social Science Data Services — data and analysis tools to help you with your research.

Inspec

• Premier citation database for electrical engineering and computer science
• Coverage: 1886-present
• Indexes journal and conference articles
• Links to full text when available

Compendex

• Top engineering database
• Coverage: 1884-present
• Indexes journal and conference articles
• Links to full text when available
• Many search options, i.e. limits for review articles

CiteSeer

• Free computer science citation database
• Tells you how many times an article has been cited, and who has cited it
• Some full text available

Google Scholar

• Free academic search engine
• Tells you how many times an article has been cited, and who has cited it
• Links to full text when available

Web of Science

• General science database
• Coverage: 1900-present
• Tells you how many times an article has been cited, and who has cited it
• Links to full text when available

Scitopia

• 3.5 million documents, plus patents and government data
• 21 societies spanning 350 years of sci-tech scholarship

ACM Digital Library

• Full text of journal and conference proceedings articles published by the ACM

IEEE Xplore

• Full text of IEEE journal and conference proceedings articles, as well as standards

Books 24×7

• Full text of books available on a variety of technical topics

Safari

• Full text of O’Reilly programming books

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

• Full text of conference proceedings in computer science
• Roughly 100 conferences on timely topics published per year

Knovel

• Full text reference materials on technical topics

DSpace

• MIT’s institutional repository
• Contains over 14,000 MIT theses
• Use DSpace to share your work with the world