John Dupuis, Steacie Science Library

Research Tips for Concurrent Programming

• RefWorks can help you manage your footnotes & bibliography on the web.  Easy to use, interfaces directly with work to create footnotes & bibliographies.   If logging in from home, need to use RWYorku group code
  
  
• Library Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks page

• Scientific publication cycle
  
  
• Kinds of documents:
  • patents: government granted license to an invention
  • standards: agreed upon methodology: ie 802.11
  • journals: research results presented in a periodical/magazine
  • conference proceedings: research results presented at a meeting
  • technical report: description of a solution to a specific problem
  • books
    • reference: encyclopedias, tables, data collections, properties
    • manuals: lab methods, programming languages, operating systems
    • monographs: general topics
  • technical specifications: how a device or component works, ie circuit diagrams\
  • code library: database of source code listings or linkable subroutines
    
    
• Peer review: researchers validating each others work before publication
  
  
• Academic Integrity & Plagiarism web site.
  
  
• If you're not sure how to get started on your project, come to Steacie.

• Need to use bar code number & PIN from library card to authenticate as York user
  
  
• Information here on logging in
  
  
• Remember: need to type in name of eresource using "by title" link after logging in.
  • you may not  be able to access directly via this course page: it won't prompt for login

   

   

• Do a search in The York Catalogue:
  • by title: Concurrent programming in Java : design principles and patterns
  • by author: Bjarne Stroustrup
  • by journal title: journal of the acm
  • by subject:  Java
  • by subject: concurrent programming, parallel programming, parallel processing
  • by keyword: concurrent and programming and java
  • by subject: bioinformatics
  • by keyword: biological and computing
  • by keyword: biolog$ and comput$

These online databases can also be found in the eResources Quick Links or Search boxes on the library home page.

Article Citation Databases

• INSPEC -- best source for citations in all computing fields, best for comprehensive searches
  • example: concurrent and locking
    
    

• Web of Science -- Very good coverage of all major computing journals, good for 
  • example: concurrent and locking
    
    
• VERY IMPORTANT: look in full text article databases for conference proceedings

Full Text Article Databases

• ACM Digital Library -- Best resource: All ACM journals & proceedings
  
  
• IEEE Xplore  -- All IEEE journals & proceedings, more engineering than CS
  
  
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science  -- source of articles from various conference proceedings, find citations from Web of Science
  

Online Computer Books

• Safari -- over 200 online computer / technical books on a wide range of subjects.

• Using Google as a scholarly research tool:
  • example: concurrent programming
  • example: concurrent programming locking 
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm
  • example: concurrent programming locking algorithm java
  • strategy: find good portal sites
  • strategy: make sure you know exactly who produced the content

• DBLP  -- good CS index of free web & many conferences & journals
  
  
• Citeseer -- indexes the free web but a bit out of date
  
  
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies 
  
  
• And others...

For questions: steacref@yorku.ca

http://www.yorku.ca/jdupuis/cosc5490.htm

last updated: 2003.01.14.