Computer Science and Mathematics resources

Your Liaison Librarian: Julie Beard      email: j.l.beard@keele.ac.uk     tel: +44 (0)1782 734162


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To search the University's e-journal collections effectively, use 'Advanced Search'. From here you can construct impactful keyword searches and filter your results to make them more manageable and more relevant. For advice and training on how to search effectively, please contact your school's Librarian. 

IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Provides full-text access to the world’s highest quality technical literature in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics and related disciplines. IEEE Xplore contains full-text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. For access, please select 'institutional sign in' and search for 'Keele University'. Log in with your Keele username and password. IEEE Video Tutorials.

ACM Digital Library
Full text of every article ever published by The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing. For access, please select 'sign in', then 'institutional login' and search for 'Keele University'. Log in with your Keele username and password. ACM Video Tutorials.

EBSCO: Computer Science/Engineering databases
Cross-search a variety of multi-disciplinary databases. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

ProQuest: Science and Technology databases 
Cross-search a variety of science and technology databases. Search all databases simultaneously, or select specific ones by clicking on 'change databases'. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

Web of Science - Clarivate
Search a variety of databases, including Web of Science Core Collection and Derwent Innovations Index (engineering). Search across all databases simultaneously, or select specific ones from the drop-down menu. Also includes access to Journal Citation Reports. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Web of Science support page.

ScienceDirect
Leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters.

Semantic Scholar
AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, providing citation graphs and one-sentence summaries for scholarly papers. Video tutorials.

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
Collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science and (computational) mathematics from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science.

arXiv
Archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science and statistics.

CiteSeerX
Public search engine, digital library and repository for scientific and academic papers with a focus on computer and information science.

Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals
Access more than 50 peer-reviewed physics and technology journals.

ACM ebooks
Ebooks for the computer science community. For access, please select 'institutional sign in' and search for 'Keele University'. Log in with your Keele username and password.

IEEE ebooks
Computing and engineering ebooks. For access, please select 'sign in', then 'institutional login' and search for 'Keele University'. Log in with your Keele username and password.

VLeBooks
One of our core ebook collections with many titles relevant for computer science and mathematics.

ProQuest Ebook Central
This ebook platform is another of our core ebook collections. For access, please log in with your Keele username and password.

School of Computer Science and Mathematics - online reading lists
Access the recommended reading for your modules.

Analytical Sciences Digital Library
Digital library that collects, catalogues, links and publishes peer reviewed web-based discovery materials pertinent to the analytical sciences

Easy unit converter
Easy online calculator and metric conversions.

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
A searchable dictionary covering anything to do with computing.

Good Calculators
A variety of free online calculators, such as maths and statistics, engineering and conversion calculators.

jCalc98
Online scientific/engineering calculator; a Javascript version of the downloadable Calc98.

Scholarpedia
Online encyclopaedia written by experts. Topics covered include computational intelligence and dynamical systems.

British Library EThOS
The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

Connected Papers
Looking for papers that are similar/connected to the ones that you are already using in your research? This website will instantly generate a clickable graph of related articles/papers for you.

European Newsstream - ProQuest
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.

Google Scholar
The most famous web search engine can search for academic journals and literature too. In Google Scholar’s settings you can also customise your results to quickly see which of them you have full-text access to through Keele Library. To get this working, before you perform your search click on Settings and type 'keele' into the Library Links search box. Tick the Keele University – view online @Keele box, click on Save Preferences and you're ready to go. When you've typed in your search, any results with ‘view-online@Keele' link next to the title provide a direct link through to the article.

Kanopy
An on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page. Kanopy's Mathematics Collection. Kanopy's Computer Science & Technology Collection

Keele Research Repository
A digital archive of research and enterprise output produced by Keele University staff.

Nature
Access to Nature, a leading weekly international science journal, from 1997 onwards.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.

Nexis
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.

Reference Management Tools (RefWorks and Cite Them Right)
Access quality reference management tools provided by the Library. RefWorks allows you to save and manage all the references you use for your assignments, whether these are from books, journals, web pages or other sources, and create bibliographies. Cite Them Right helps you to reference correctly in a variety of styles, not just for standard resources such as books and journal articles, but also for resources such as statutes, patents and social networking sites. Visit our Reference management page for useful guides and help using these resources.

Science
Full text access to Science journal. Access is from 1880 to the current issue.

If you need help using any Library Resources, or have questions you’d like to ask you can always contact us: library.help@keele.ac.uk, or start live chat.

The Liaison Librarian for Computer Science and Mathematics is Julie Beard. If you’d like more in-depth help on using resources, want advice on how to search effectively, or want to further develop your information or digital literacy skills you can contact Julie and ask for an appointment: j.l.beard@keele.ac.uk

You can also come along to our ‘…In a Nutshell’ training sessions. These workshops introduce key academic skills in bitesize, 45 minute, practical sessions.

There’s also guides and tutorials linked below that should help you get started:

If you’re a PhD student or researcher at Keele you can access help and support from our Research Support Librarians. Find out more on the Research Support webpage.