ACM Digital Library.
New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1947–. Contains full-text articles from journals, newsletters, and conference
proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Though full text is limited to libraries that subscribe
to the database, anyone can access the basic search and browse features for free at http://portal.acm.org.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html. Contains references to computing publications in broad categories including database research, distributed systems, object-oriented
programming, and artificial intelligence. Compiled by Alf-Christian Achilles, of the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing
http://foldoc.org. A searchable dictionary of computer terms, including acronyms, jargon, computer languages, operating systems, companies,
and theory. The site is maintained by the Department of Computing at the Imperial College, London.
WWW Virtual Library: Computing and Computer Science
http://vlib.org/Computing. An index page for a wide variety of computer-related Web directories in the WWW Virtual Library, including cryptography, logic programming, and Web design.
Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History.
Ed. Raúl Rojas. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. An accessible work that provides entries on people, organizations,
and developments in the history of computing “from the abacus to eBay.”
Encyclopedia of Computer Science.
Ed. Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly, and David Hemmendinger. 4th ed. Hoboken: Wiley, 2003. A technical compendium that covers
hardware, computer systems, information and data, software, the mathematics of computing, theory of computation, methodologies,
applications, and computing in general. An authoritative reference work for the field.
