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Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Dictionaries, Directories

Rojas, Raul, ed.Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. v.1-2, 2001
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lehman College Sci Tech Reference QA76.15 .E53

Reilly, Edwin D. Encyclopedia of Computer Science. 2000
Lehman College Sci Tech Reference QA76.15 .E48 2000

Sebesta, Robert W. Concepts of programming languages. 2002
Lehman College Library Reserve

Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 8th ed., v. 1-20, 1997
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lehman College Sci Tech Reference, Q121 .M3 1997

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia 8th ed., v.1-2, 1995
Provides articles on animal life, biosciences, chemistry, earth and atmospheric sciences, energy sources and power technology, mathematics and information sciences, materials and engineering sciences, medicine, anatomy, and physiology, physics, plant sciences, space and planetary sciences. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lehman College Reference, Q121 .V3 1995

General Abstracts and Indexes

Abstracts and Indexes in Science and Technology: a Descriptive Guide 2nd.ed., 1995
Lehman College Sci Tech Reference Q158.5 .O95 1985

Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (FirstSearch)
(Database from LE Electronic Resources list).
FirstSearch's international and English-language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. Coverage: 1983-present. Provides citations and abstracts for articles in applied science and technology periodicals and book reviews.

Dissertation Abstracts International (FirstSearch) (Database from LE Electronic Resources list).
Dissertations from U.S., Canada, Great Britain and Europe, and Masters theses from U.S. Includes dissertations from 1881 to present with abstracts since 1980. Masters theses and abstracts are from 1988 to present. Indexes doctoral dissertations in all disciplines, including earth sciences, which were completed at accredited North American colleges and universities, and some foreign universities. This database includes abstracts only for dissertations completed since 1980. Can be searched by author, discipline, subject keywords, and institution.

General Science Abstracts 
H. W. Wilson Abstracts. Coverage: 1984-present Abstracts articles from science journals, popular science mags, and NY Times Science Section.

Specialized and Multi-Subject Electronic Databases

Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library
Includes the full text of seven magazines and twenty-two professional journals. Also includes the full text of dozens of proceedings and the publications of special interest groups.

Kluwer Journals
Among the hundreds of journals available in full text tere are some 35 in computer and information science.

MathSciNet [American Mathematical Society]
Web editions of American Mathematical Society journals: Bulletin of the AMS, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, Electronic research Announcements, Journal of the AMS, Mathematics of Computation, Proceedings of the AMS, Representation Theory, Transactions of the AMS, Notices of the AMS.

Non-Profit and Government Organizations

American Mathematical Society
http://e-math.ams.org/

Association for Computing Machinery
http://www.acm.org

Association for Symbolic Logic
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~asl

International Linear Algebra Society
http://www.math.technion.ac.il/iic/

MAA Online: The Mathematical Association of America
http://www.maa.org

Math in Daily Life
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath

Internet Resources

Computer Science
Comprehensive Clearinghouse site from SUNY Albany libraries. Links include Academic Departments and Institutes, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Employment, and Programming Languages, Courses, and Tutorials.  

Math Forum
http://mathforum.org
Hosted by Drexel University, provides a searchable directory of hundreds of annotated sites, supports discussion among researchers, teachers, and students.

Programmer's Oasis
Provides links with information on programming languages, including C++, Java, and Perl.