CS 420 Course Guide: Library Research Guide

Get basic information on scientific concepts and topics by searching AccessScience.

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Here are some tips to make your search more successful:

• Books will be more useful for the history and theory of your field, while articles will help with topics and applications within your field
• For books, try searching a keyword or phrase representing your field or an aspect of it, and use AND to pair that with words like introduc*, foundation*, basic*, or histor*
• For articles, try pairing your CS field keyword with words like appli* or topic*, and be sure to re-sort your results by Relevance or Cited By (Highest) to find relevant or important works

Use this box to search WorldCat for books in the Meredith library.

Use this box to search the premier database for scholarly articles in the physical sciences: Scopus.

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Complete the worksheet for your team's subfield of Computer Science.  This is great practice for the research you will do on your own topic!