Library Guides: CYBER 100: Computer Systems Literacy: Find Information

In-Class Links

Popular vs. Scholarly Brainstorming
Use this link for our in-class brainstorming
Keyword Practice Link
Use this link for our keyword practice activity
Keyword Sharing Activity
Use this link to share your keywords

IEEE Xplore
Use this database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.
IEEE Xplore contains the full text of all IEEE & IET conference papers, and standards published since 1988 and all IEEE journals since 1884 & IET journals since 1988. The material can be accessed through a searchable database or by browsing. 100 concurrent users. Inactive users timeout after 15 minutes. NOTE: We do not have access to the following IEEE content: IEEE Draft Standards, IEEE eLearning Library and IEEE English for Engineering. Additionally, we do not have access to various 3rd party content hosted by IEEE.

Remember to use the Magazines & Journals dropdown box

ACM Digital Library
Full text of every article ever published by ACM. Use Chrome for access.
Full text of every article ever published by ACM.

Tips for finding MAGAZINE articles in ACM Digital Library

1. Click on MAGAZINES on the top left bar.

2. Enter your search terms (combine important keywords with AND)

3. Use the filters on the left to limit by date (DON'T FORGET TO HIT APPLY) OR to search for another term within these results

Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.

When searching Google Scholar from home:

click on the link to SETTINGS in the upper left of the Google Scholar search page (three parallel horizontal lines)
click on Settings in the left margin
click on Library Links
enter Pennsylvania State University and click on the search icon
when "Pennsylvania State University" appears, place a check in the box preceding it and click on SAVE

After searching in Google Scholar, use the Get it! @ Penn State link to access full text journal articles.