On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, CASBURN Steven M wrote:
> Ed Sperr asked a good question: Where do we find relevant literature?
> When I was a student, I used the ACM Digital Library, which now costs
> $198/year to access ($99 for ACM membership, $99 for the DL) if you do
> not have access through your library. ACM also has special-interest
> groups for information retrieval, hypertext and the web, and artificial
> intelligence. Membership in ASIS&T ($140/year) might also be worth a
> look.
>
> Does anyone else have a place they would go for relevant CS literature?
The IEEE Computer Society has a Digital Library as well. Some of it is
strictly hardware-related, but they have plenty of other content that
might be relevant to LIS.
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/csdl/content/index.html
Like the ACM DL, membership is required for access, but I believe both
organizations offer membership discounts if you're a member of both.
Marijane White
Masters Candidate
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Received on Thu Aug 30 2007 - 18:33:36 EDT