Computing

Support for computing

• Liaison Librarian: Linsey Sutherland
• Email (preferred): linsey.sutherland@uws.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0)141 8494114 (based at Paisley Campus)

Contact us if you would like advice on:

• Finding information for your assignments
• choosing keywords and setting limits
• choosing resources to search
• assessing credibility of sources
• Compiling a search strategy for a literature review
• Reference management

Resources

ACM Portal: full-text collection of all Association for Computing Machinery publications, including journals, conference proceedings and books

IEEE Xplore Digital Library: full-text documents in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

Emerald: Journals and e-books covering business, management and related fields

GALE InfoTrac Newsstand - full-text newspaper resource that provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcript

ScienceDirect: full-text journals and e-books on a range of subjects (free registration may be required)

SpringerLink: full-text journals, e-books and reference works on a wide range of subjects

Statista - a wide variety of statistics, industry data and analysis from the UK, Europe and around the world. Enhance your presentations with the downloadable tables, charts and infographics.  

Web of Science: scientific journal article and e-book citation indexing service that also provides full text links to other databases

ZETOC: Tables of contents for research journals (not full-text)