COMPUTER SCIENCE

• ACM Digital Library. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1947–. Contains full-text articles from journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery.

• ACM Portal: The Guide to Computing Literaturehttp://portal.acm.org/guide.cfm A database of references, many with abstracts, to over 700,000 publications in the field, including books, journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, and technical reports. The advanced search option is available only to ACM members, but the basic search and browse features are useful and free. Though many of the items include links, most require subscriptions to materials that may be in your library. Sponsored by the association for Computing Machinery.
• FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computinghttp://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html A searchable dictionary of computer terms, including acronyms, jargon, computer languages, operating systems, companies, and theory. The site is maintained by the Department of Computing at the Imperial College, London.
• Virtual Computer Libraryhttp://www.utexas.edu/computer/vcl Provides a collection of documentation, news sources, journals, online books, and other information of particular interest to users of college computer resources. Sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin.
• WWW Virtual Library: Computing and Computer Sciencehttp://vlib.org/Computing An index page for a wide variety of computer-related Web directories in the WWW Virtual Library, including cryptography, logic programming, and software engineering.

• Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Ed. Raúl Rojas. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. An accessible work that provides entries on people, organizations, and developments in the history of computing, "from the abacus to eBay."
• Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Ed. Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly, and David Hemmendinger. 4th ed. London: Nature, 2000. A technical compendium that covers hardware, computer systems, information and data, software, the mathematics of computing, theory of computation, methodologies, applications, and computing in general. This is an authoritative reference work for the field.