Computer Engineering

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Kaplan, S. M. (2004). Wiley electrical and electronics engineering dictionary. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.	Ford, R. M., & Coulston, C. S. (2008). Design for electrical and computer engineers: theory, concepts, and practice. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.
Hambley, A. R. (2008). Electrical engineering: principles and applications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.	Patterson, D. A. & Hennessy, J. L. (2009). Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

E-books on this topic can be accessed from ITPro.
A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Keywords:

Computer architecture and organization	Computer engineering	Computer systems engineering
Computer interface	Computer networks	Computer organization
Digital signal processing	(Electrical/electric) engineering	Electronic circuit design
Hardware engineering	Human-computer interaction	Operating systems
Programming fundamentals

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Computer Source

• MAS Ultra

• ProQuest Science Journals

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

CompInfo - a browsable annotated subject guide to computer and information technology Websites.

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL) - computer science technical reports from international computer science departments and industrial and government research laboratories, for non-commercial and educational use."

Software Engineering Group's Projects and Links - the National Research Center of Canada Institute of Information Technology's Software Engineering Group develops tools and techniques to assist Canadian software companies. This site contains research project abstracts of the group and has links to other websites.

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