Subject Guide: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Finding Journal Articles and Conference Papers

ACM Digital Library  UCB access only
Coverage: 1954–present
Journals, magazines, and conferences of the ACM.

INSPEC  UCB access only
Coverage: 1898–present
Electrical engineering, computer science, physics, and related fields.
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Web of Science  UCB access only
Coverage: 1900–present
Article database covering the core journals in all scholarly fields. Provides cited reference searching.
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CiteSeerX
Computer science: articles, papers, and technical reports freely available online.

Computing Reviews  UCB access only
Coverage: 1985–present
Reviews of computing literature, including journals, conference proceedings, books, and book chapters.

IEEE Xplore  UCB access only
Coverage: 1988–present (or earlier)
Journals, magazines, and conferences of the IEEE and IET.

MathSciNet  UCB access only
Coverage: 1940–present
Theoretical and applied mathematics.
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Finding Books and Conference Proceedings

Next Generation Melvyl Pilot
The Next Generation Melvyl Pilot is a collaboration between the UC Libraries and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Holdings from all ten UC campuses are included.

Current Melvyl
Library catalog for the UC System. Find call numbers, locations, and online access for books, journals, conference proceedings, and more.
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OskiCat
OskiCat is the UC Berkeley library catalog. It does not include some engineering-related libraries at UC Berkeley. All library users can find course reserves and renew items in OskiCat. UC Berkeley faculty, students, staff, and other UC Berkeley library cardholders may request materials from NRLF in OskiCat.

Finding Overviews and Data

ENGnetBASE  UCB access only
Compilation of engineering handbooks published by CRC Press. Selected electrical engineering and computer science titles:

• The Communications Handbook, 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2002.
• The Computer Engineering Handbook. CRC Press, 2002.
• The Electrical Engineering Handbook, 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2000.
• Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering & Technology. CRC Press, 2003.
• Image Processing Handbook, 4th ed. CRC Press, 2002.
• The MEMS Handbook. CRC Press, 2002.
• The Telecommunications Handbook. CRC Press, 2000.
• The VLSI Handbook. CRC Press, 2000.
• Wireless Technology: Protocols, Standards & Techniques. CRC Press, 2002.

AccessScience  UCB access only
Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

Knovel  UCB access only

Safari Tech Books Online  UCB access only

Computer Science Handbook, 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2004.
QA76.C54755 2004 Reference

Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th ed. Nature Pub., 2000.
QA76.15.E48 2000 Reference

Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering  UCB access only

Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology  UCB access only

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Q121.M3 2002 Reference

Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, 14th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
TK151.S8 2000 Reference

Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Wiley, 1999.
TK9.W55 1999 Reference

Finding Electronic Journals

IEEE Xplore  UCB access only
Covers all IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, and conferences.

ACM Digital Library  UCB access only
Covers all ACM journals, magazines, and conferences.

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Finding Technical Reports

CiteSeerX
Online collection of full-text computer science articles, papers, and technical reports freely available on the Web.

UCB Reports

EECS Technical Reports
Full text available online. Also includes the full text of most CSD Technical Reports and abstracts for ERL Technical Memoranda. Hard-copy versions are available in the Engineering Library: CSD Technical Reports (TK7885.A1.R46) and ERL Technical Memoranda (TK7800.C32b). The Library supports the permanent archive of the EECS Technical Reports.

International Computer Science Institute
Online archive of technical reports from the International Computer Science Institute.

Other technical reports may be available online or in our uncataloged technical report collection. Consult our Technical Reports page for online sources, or ask a librarian for assistance in locating specific reports.

Finding Dissertations and Theses

For the most part, only UCB dissertations are available in the UCB Libraries. To find specific UCB dissertations, search Current Melvyl by Author. To locate sample UCB dissertations from your department, search Current Melvyl for the Subject berkeley dissertations electrical engineering computer science.
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