Computer Science

Oxford has outstanding collections in Computer Science. This page gives you fast access to some key resources, which will lead to many others.

Subject Librarian

Ljilja Ristic

Physical Sciences Librarian Subject Consultant, Radcliffe Science Library

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Libraries

Principal collections:

  • Radcliffe Science Library

Books in Computer Science can be found on Level 2 (the Lankester Reading Room) and in the RSL Stack. Computer Science periodicals are mainly located on Level 2.

Associated collections:

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Catalogues

  • SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online): cross-search Oxford Libraries' online catalogue, ORA (institutional repository) and selected databases.
  • COPAC: academic and national library catalogue.
  • British Library Integrated Catalogue: over 13 million items in the BL collections.
  • WorldCat: over 60 million items on the OCLC catalogue of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

Book suggestions

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/recommendations [Opens in new window.]

E-resource suggestions

http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/erc/proposals/index.html  [Opens in new window.]

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Databases

The University subscribes to a range of online information resources which can be accessed through the Oxford Libraries Information Platform OxLIP+.

Guides for many of these databases are available on the Bodleian Libraries' Database Guides. [Opens in new window.]

Core databases

Additional databases

  • MathSciNet: a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1864.
  • Scopus: covers 15,000 journals, plus web sources and patents across science & medicine. Includes Medline and Embase.
  • Web of Knowledge: includes Science Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports (impact factors), and Scientific & Technical Proceedings.

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Journals

  • Oxford e-Journals: access to e-journals available on the University network.
  • OLIS: search for hardcopy journals.

The Oxford University e-Journals portal provides provides an extensive collection of e-journals published by the main societies and publishers: Association for Computing - ACM Digital Archive, American Mathematical Society, London Mathematical Society, IEEE Electronic Library - Computer Society (Digital Library), SIAM journals including LOCUS archive, Cambridge University Press - Computer Science and Mathematics, Science Direct, Springer journals, Wiley InterScience, etc..

Open access e-journals

  • arXiv.org: open access to over 400,000 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
  • DOAJ: the directory of open access journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and language
  • The Computing Research Repository (CoRR): repository of full text articles.
  • ORA (Oxford University Research Archive): research articles, conference proceedings, theses, reports.
  • ZETOC: the British Library's electronic table of contents of many current journals and conference proceedings from 1993 to date; updated daily.

Monographic series

Available through Oxford e-Journals.

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Reference sources

Encyclopaedias and handbooks

Conference proceedings

Dissertations:

The library holds print copies of Oxford Doctoral Dissertations in Physical, Mathematical, Life Sciences and Medicine. The dissertations are located in the stack, and can be requested on OLIS, the library catalogue.

Reference management tools

Store useful references and create your own bibliography. BibTex, RefWorks and EndNoteWeb are free to Oxford University members.

Keeping up to date: search alerts and volume/issue alerts

Set up email alerts or RSS feeds for automatic notification of new journal articles or tables of contents for the latest issue.

For search alerts (by topic): do a search on a database such as INSPEC then choose Save as Alert to get notification of new articles on the subject. Please note that this alert option is not available from all databases.

Journal alerts provide table of contents from selected journals: use ZETOC: the British Library's electronic table of contents.

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Websites

Internet gateways

Societies and professional organisations

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Training

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