Research Resources on the Web and at UCSC
Google http://www.google.com/
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/
Peer-reviewed articles and other research materials.
Citeseer http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis
Papers and citations. Sometimes a good way to get a paper.
It is incomplete and the quality of bibliographic (bibtex) entries
varies widely.
Scirus http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
Like Google, but for scientific papers. I've only used it a few
times.
IEEE Xplore (digital library) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
IEEE library of conference proceedings and journal papers. From campus
machines you can download
most IEEE articles. The "sluglink"
proxy will let you download papers from off-campus (see below).
ACM Digital Library http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
ACM library. Similar access policies as IEEE, including sluglink.
Bookshelves let you keep track of topics over time.
SlugLink: UCSC Library proxy
server http://library.ucsc.edu/services/sluglink/
Enables access to a number of digital
libraries. (Just remember to disable it when you're done otherwise all
your web traffic goes through the proxy, even if you're off campus) The
library has links and passwords on its site to a number of web
resources, for instance USENIX.
O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf
http://safari.oreilly.com/
Some of the O'Reilly technical books are available in electronic form
from campus machines.
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