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This is a guide to finding selected Information Technology & Management resources. For in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or Ask a Librarian. Information Technology & Management Librarian Subject Specialist:
 Nichole Novak
 email: nnovak2@iit.edu
 phone: 630.682.6047

Use these resources to find journal articles, e-books, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.

IIT Access Only = Restricted to IIT students, faculty, and staff.
Highly recommended = Highly recommended

Highly recommended ACM Digital Library - Association for Computing Machinery IIT Access Only
The Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library is an online repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by the ACM, including journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings. All computing subject areas are covered.

Books 24x7 IIT Access Only
Books 24x7 is a database of over 4,500 E-books covering computer science and information technology from more than 80 publishers, including MIT Press, Que, Microsoft Press, and many more. This resource is great for finding programming how-to books and technical manuals for network administration, operating systems, database management, and other IT topics. Use the My Bookshelf feature to save a list of books or book chapters you have been using, so you can easily pick up where you left off during your previous sessions.

CiteSeer
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library focusing on computer and information science. CiteSeer provides citation indexing for each article, which allows you to see (a) all the references cited by the article, and (b) what other articles have cited the article.

Compendex IIT Access Only
Compendex is the definitive bibliographic database of worldwide engineering literature trusted by engineering researchers worldwide. With over ten million records that reference more than 5,600 scholarly journals, trade magazines and conference proceedings, Compendex covers an unmatched breadth and quality of engineering publications.

Computer and Information Systems Abstracts IIT Access Only
Provides comprehensive indexing of academic literature related to computer and information science from 1981-present, including journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, and books. Major subject areas covered: artificial intelligence, applications, programming, hardware, information systems, mathematics of computing, and software engineering.

CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace IIT Access Only
"The CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace offers comprehensive bibliographic coverage of research, emerging technologies, applications and companies in the areas of aeronautics, astronautics, computer and information technology, electronics, communications, solid state materials and devices, and space sciences. Everything from theoretical research through practical application is covered. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases."

Highly recommended Inspec IIT Access Only
Inspec, created by the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers), is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering. INSPEC also provides significant coverage in related disciplines such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and many more. This database indexes ACM, IEEE, and SIAM publications, so it's a good one-stop search interface.

Web of Science IIT Access Only
Web of Science provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high-impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, you can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to your research. The citation index allows you to see (a) all the references cited by the article, and (b) what other articles have cited the article. This is a good database to use if you have an article of interest and want to expand your search to related documents. Links to related articles are provided.
Note: Limited to three (3) concurrent users