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Subject Guide for Computing: Recommended Databases

Recommended Databases

See below for a list of recommended databases for Computing, as well as recommended multidisciplinary & citation databases.

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Recommended Databases

Recommended Multidisciplinary Databases

The following multidisciplinary citation databases can be useful as they allow you to search the scholarly literature across multiple disciplines (physical sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and life sciences) at the one time.

Scopus and Web of Science are citation indexes so you can track research via citations. You can see the references cited by each paper and view the papers that have subsequently cited a particular paper. It’s like looking back in time (the references cited by a paper) but also forward in time (the papers that cite a particular paper). 

Academic Search Complete is another multidisciplinary database available on the EBSCOhost platform.

 

Scopus is a citation index so you can track research via citations. You can see the references cited by each paper and view the papers that have subsequently cited a particular paper. It’s like looking back in time (the references cited by a paper) but also forward in time (the papers that cite a particular paper). 

Web of Science is a citation index so you can track research via citations. You can see the references cited by each paper and view the papers that have subsequently cited a particular paper. It’s like looking back in time (the references cited by a paper) but also forward in time (the papers that cite a particular paper).