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ACM Digital Library
Comprehensive collection of full-text publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, books, and newsletters published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Covers applied sciences for business, engineering, and computer science, considering the social and business implications of new technologies. Includes academic journals, professional publications, and reference sources from 1965–present.
IEEE Xplore
Collection of IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, and standards from 1988 to the present.
SpringerLink
Provides access to journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, reference works, protocols, and other documents across a range of disciplines, with greatest emphasis in STEM fields.
Web of Science
Citation index of diverse, scholarly information from across the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Also includes search and analysis tools to enhance this content.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
SPIE Digital Library
SPIE provides peer-reviewed articles on applied research in optics and photonics, including optical engineering, electronic imaging, biomedical optics, microlithography, remote sensing, and nanophotonics.
PubMed
Provides a search engine and index to citations and abstracts for life sciences and biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database. Other databases available include the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus of terminology, and numerous nucleic acid and protein sequence libraries. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central (public access) and external databases to which CWRU subscribes.

USENIX Proceedings
Free access to the USENIX (The Advanced Computing Systems Association) Proceedings.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching - quickly, informally, and at a high level.

Other Databases

DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
Free bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
CiteSeer
An evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
Repository of computer science papers made available through through the partnership of ACM, ArXiv e-print archive, and NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library).

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Free technical reports repository sponsored by ACM, the arXiv.org, and NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library).

How to Access an Article

Some articles may be readily available fulltext from the index you searched in. Use LibKey Nomad browser extension that simplifies and streamlines access to the Kelvin Smith Library's subscription resources.

LibKey Nomad
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that automatically provides instant links to articles from journals subscribed to by CWRU Libraries – and Open Access sources – connecting you to literature discovered on the web.
CWRU eJournal Portal
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed.

To access articles that are not available online, first the catalog to check whether we have it available in print in the library, and, if still not available, use the interlibrary loans service.

Interlibrary Loan Services
When the journal is not available neither in print or in digital format, you may order a copy of the article of interest using the Interlibrary Loan Services.