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Databases and Electronic Resources

Databases

There are several databases that are very useful in the area of Computing. A lot of the databases we subscribe to give you access to expenisve technical information free of charge as a UEL student. The information that you will find has been quality assured and reviewed so you can be sure of the quality. Much of the information on these databases is available full-text and is accessible from home, with your Athens account, as well as from University.

  • ABI/inform- This database is primarily useful in the field of Business, however there are a number of journals and articles realting to the area of IT. This database is particularly useful if you are looking at topics where business and IT are related for example project management or managing information in a business context. Some IEEE journals are accessible through this database.
  • ACM digital library- This database is only available on campus. It allows you access to the 21 journals from the ACM. Please note that although the search results will show conference papers, these are not available full text on our subscription. It is only the journal articles that you will be able to access full text from this database.
  • ANTE- ( Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering) This is an abstract database, so the information that you are able to access is a citation and an abstract. This database covers the subject areas of computing and information technology.
  • British standards online- This is a very search friendly database of British standards covering a range of areas such as: Information security and green IT.
  • Computer abstracts- This database gives you access to abstracts from over 200 international computing journals. It is well indexed and will give you a good start on your literature review.
  • EBSCO Academic Search Complete- This is a useful database for finding a range of journal articles relating to Information Technology and computing. This database is easy to search and also has a lot of full text material available for you.
  • EBSCO Business Source Complete- This database is good for finding information about uses of computing and Information Technology in a business related context.
  • EBSCO Greenfile - This database may be useful if you are looking at the effects of computing and Information and Technology on environment.
  • Emerald - This database is primarily for management and business related journals and articles. It does have some coverage in the area of knowledge management and project management which may be of interest.
  • Nexis - This newspaper database is good if you are looking for any news articles. Although it also covers a lot of industry publications such as: Computer Weekly, IEE Proceedings- Information Security and Network world.
  • Sciencedirect - A useful multidisciplinary database with some useful journals in the field of computer science.

Electronic resources

Electronic Books. The library holds several e-books in the area of computing. To access our e-book collection please search our library search from here you will be able to search and access our e-books with your Athens username and password from anywhere in the world. If you need more help then take a look at our E-books - Quick Guide. ‌The collection is continually growing and where ever possible will include core texts. Our e-books include:

  • Dix, A. (2003) Human-computer interaction 3rd edn. Dawsonera [Online]. Available at: http://www.dawsonera.com
  • Dawson, C. (2009) Projects in computing and information systems: a students guide. 2nd edn. Dawsonera [Online]. Available at: http://www.dawsonera.com
  • Weaver, P. (2003) Success in your project : a guide to student system development projects. Dawsonera [Online]. Available at: http://www.dawsonera.com
  • Charatan, Q. and Kans , A. (2003) Formal software development : from VDM to Java. Dawsonera [Online]. Available at: http://www.dawsonera.com
  • Konheim, A. (2007) Computer security and cryptography. Dawsonera [Online]. Available at: http://www.dawsonera.com

Students also have access to a collection of electronic books through the Safari online book platform. For more information please contact the subject librarian. For a list of books that are available through this platform please check here

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Subject Librarian

The Subject Librarian for Computing is Ella Mitchell. You can contact Ella via email at e.mitchell@uel.ac.uk or by phone on 020 8223 2961.

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