CSE 1001 Research Directions in Computing

Posted in September 19th, 2010

by jdupuis in Computer Science, Research Sessions

For Starters

FREE Citation Management Software

• RefWorks site (Login) can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web. Easy to use, interfaces directly with MS Word to create footnotes & bibliographies
• For off campus use, get the York group code here.
• FAQ and Instructions for various databases
• RefWorks Tutorial
• Zotero and Mendeley are other options
• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• What I suggest for this assignment: Citation Machine
• use APA or MLA
• Click on “More” to get conference paper form
• My search topics
• computer chess
• biometric face recognition
• search engine optimization

General Information

• Scientific publication cycle
• Knee, Michael. Internet Reference Sources for Computing and Computer Science: A Selected Guide. Journal of Library Administration, 44(1/2) 2006: 453-473.
• Some interesting articles/posts on CS scholarly publishing
• Rebooting the CS Publication Process
• Confronting the myth of rapid obsolescence in computing research
• Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research
• Time for computer science to grow up
• Open, Closed or Clopen Access?
• Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research
• Hypercriticality
• An interesting publishing model
• Kinds of documents:
• patents: government granted license to an invention
• standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
• journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
• conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
  (most conferences in CS are peer-reviewed)
• technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
• books
• reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
• manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
• monographs: general topics
• technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie
  circuit diagrams
• code library: database of source code listings or linkable
  subroutines
• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.

Logging in from Home

• Need to use Passport York to authenticate as a York user
• Information here on logging in
• Remember: need to type in name of eresource using “by title” link after logging in.

Finding Resources at the Library

The Library Home Page

Steacie Library Home Page!

Finding Books & Journals

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
• by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
• by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
• by journal title: journal of the acm
• by subject: Java
• by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel
  processing
• by keyword: concurrent and programming and java

Online Computer Books

• Safari — over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.
• Synthesis — amazing collection of CS & Engineering ebooks, more advanced topics
• Books24×7 — EngineeringPro & ITPro
• Scholars Portal eBooks –  a great big pile of ebooks

Finding Articles

These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.

Full Text Article Databases

• ACM Digital Library — Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
• IEEE Xplore — All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
• SPIE Digital Library — has all the SPIE Proceedings and journals in full text
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science — Also includes LN in Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Physics, and other areas. Source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science or INSPEC
• Scholars Portal Journals — very general, lots of obscure journals

Article Citation Databases

And on the open web…

• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
• example: concurrent programming
• example: concurrent programming locking
• example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
• example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
• strategy: find good portal sites
• strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content

• DBLP — good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
• Citeseer — indexes the free web
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR) — eprints and other online papers
• Collection of Computer Science bibliographies
• Google Scholar
• And others…

Subscription library databases…

• INSPEC — best source for citations in all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches (combined with Compendex)
• concurrent and aerospace and programming
• concurrent and locking and java

• Web of Science — Very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for citation searches
• concurrent and locking and java
• Scopus — another good general database with citation information
• ACM Guide to Computing Literature — Another one focusing on computing
• VERY IMPORTANT: look in full text article databases for conference
  proceedings
• IEEE, ACM or Lecture Notes in Computer Science: look in DBs below
• SPIE: keyword search in catalogue: SPIE and proceeding #
• Other: keyword search with part of title
• Last resort: 50-75% of conference papers usually on author’s home pages
• Remember, you have 50 free article requests!

And your Assignment is!

Due date: Wednesday September 29, 2010.  12 midnight.

To submit:

• send and email to jdupuis at yorku dot ca
• Subject line *must* have CSE 1001 in it.
• Please include your name and student number.

What: Pick any CSE related topic and send me 4 references related to that topic

• 1 book (print or ebook) that is available via the York Libraries
• 1 journal article that is available via the York Libraries
• 1 conference proceeding article that is available via the York Libraries
• 1 site on the open web

Format:

• In the email, list your topic then all four citations one after another
• If the database has an exportable citation format (including BibTex), that is fine.
• If not, use the Citation Machine and either APA or MLA format.
• Online sources must have a URL that I can click on campus to access the item
• For the book, please give the link to the catalogue record, if available

To contact me:

Office: Steacie 102H
Email: jdupuis@yorku.ca
MSN IM: john_dupuis@hotmail.com
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