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Guide for Interdisciplinary Telecommunications
Telecommunications is the science and practice of communicating
information by electromagnetic means (Britannica).
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Abstracts and Indexes to Journal
Articles from Scholarly Sources
Although many databases contain links to full-text articles, when
you find book or article citations in the index databases, you need to
search Chinook to see if University
Libraries own that book or periodical title.
CU ABI
Inform Global
Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand
business research topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals
for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management
techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing,
economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.
Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000
+ companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The
Wall Street Journal. Coverage: 1971 - present.
CU Academic
Search Premier
Provides citations and full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications
covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated
daily. Coverage: varies.
CU ACM
Digital Library
Bibliographic information, abstracts and full-text of articles
published in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) periodicals
and proceedings. Also includes selected works published by affiliated
organizations. Coverage: varies.
CU Business
Source Complete
Business periodical database that includes full text and abstracts fromover 1200 scholarly journals and business periodicals covering topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. It also includes case studies, company profiles, conference proceedings, country reports, financial data, industry reports, investment research reports, and market research reports.
1990 - present. (indexing and abstracts back as far as 1886 are also included).
CU Econ
Lit
The American Economic Association’s electronic database. Provides
comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics,
economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary
theory, urban economics and much more.
Coverage: 1969 - present.
CU
Engineering
Village 2--Compendex and INSPEC
Compendex is a comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering
research literature. Contains references and abstracts to engineering
journals, conferences and technical reports. Subject areas include:
chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing,
applied physics, electronics and communications as well as civil
and mechanical engineering. Includes links to full text when available.Coverage:
1884 - present.
INSPEC is a bibliographic database that indexes physics, astronomy and
astrophysics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and
control engineering and information technology. The database contains
full-text links when available. Coverage: 1898 - present.
Handout: Engineering Village 2 (Compendex
and Inspec)
Video Tutorial: "EV2 RSS Feeds in RefWorks" (1:20)
CU Expanded
Academic ASAP
An interdisciplinary database that contains citations, abstracts,
and links to selected full-text articles from general interest magazines,
scholarly journals, and newspapers. Coverage: 1980 - present
CU
Hein Online
Provides access to full text law reviews, international treaties,
the Federal Register, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, and other materials.
Coverage: varies.
IDEAS
Provides access to original research in economics. Access to selected
materials may be limited to subscribing institutions. Includes
working papers and policy documents from a wide variety of organizations.
Coverage: varies.
CU IEEE/IEE
Electronic Library
Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines
and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE
Standards, including those for telecommunications. Includes selected
full text that pre-dates 1988. Coverage: Varies.
CU International
Political Science Abstracts
Produced by the International Political Science Association. A bibliographic
database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published
throughout the world. The abstracts summarize the source articles.
Coverage: 1989 - present.
CU Legal
Trac
Provides citations to articles in all major law reviews, law journals,
specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included
are articles on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal
Practice, and Taxation. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European
Union and International Law.
Coverage: 1980 - present
CU LexisNexis
Congressional
Provides access to congressional bills and bill status, debate, testimony
presented at hearings, legislative histories, congressional reports
and documents, laws, proposed and existing regulations, and biographical,
financial and voting record information for members of Congress. Coverage:
varies.
CU PAIS
International
A bibliographic database that indexes books, periodicals, and publications
of international bodies, US and other governments on global policy
and social issues. Coverage: 1972 - present.
Scitopia
This federated vertical search portal was created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies. It searches the entire electronic libraries of these societies, including more than three million documents, peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site. Though the search is freely available, access to many documents requries authentication. Coverage varies.
CU SPIE
Digital Library
Provides full text of articles published in the Proceedings of the SPIE and the society's journals from 1990 to the present.
CU Web
of Science
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information,
author abstracts, and cited references found in 5,700 of the world's
leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than
164 disciplines. The database allows you to search for specific articles
by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography) the database is often used to search for articlesthat cite a known author or work. Coverage: 1900 - present.
Video Tutorial: "Web of Science: An Overview"
Industry News--Includes full text
databases, Market Research Reports, and Government Information.
Although many databases contain links to full-text articles,
when you find book and article citations in the index databases, you need
to search Chinook to see if
University Libraries own that book or periodical title.
CU Applied
Science and Technology Index
Indexes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional
and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well
as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference
proceedings. Coverage: 1983 - present.
CU
Frost and Sullivan
Database of market research reports and forecasts.
Strong in medical and information & communication technology research.
Coverage: varies.
CU Business & Company Resource Center
Index of full-text articles in 1300 trade and business magazines, 1980 to present; investment reports on industries and companies; profiles of 100,000+ public and private U.S. companies.
CU LexisNexis
Academic
An interdisciplinary database that contains the full text of national,
international, and regional news, newswires, transcripts, magazine
articles, legal and business information, public opinion polls, and
other sources. Coverage: varies.
CU Mergent WebReports
An online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries.
CU Regional
Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional
business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage
of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan
and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated
on a daily basis.
CU StatUSA
A database with domestic and international economic information
collected by various agencies of the U.S. government. The "Globus"
portion of the database includes Industry Sector Analysis Reports
and International Market Insight Reports written by consular
officials and other information useful for the study of the global
telecommunications industry.
Dictionaries These publications
provide background information, definitions and explanations of terms.
Newton's Telecom Dictionary
Engineering Library Reference TK5102 N49 2001
Data & Telecommunications Dictionary
Engineering Library Reference TK 5102 P48 1999
Hargrave's Communications Dictionary Engineering Library
Reference TK 5102 H37 2001
CU Scientific
and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations
Directories
CU Associations
Unlimited
Scholarly
Societies--Electrical and Computer Science
Encyclopedias These
publications provide background information, definitions and explanations
of terms.
CU Access
Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Of Science & Technology
Desktop Encyclopedia of Voice and Data Networking
Engineering Library Reference TK 5102 M853 2000
Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications
Engineering Library Reference TK 5102 E646 1991
Handbooks and Manuals
CU EngNetBase--over
400 CRC handbooks online. Includes titles such as Communications
Handbook, CRC Handbook of Modern Telecommunications, The Digital
Signal Processing Handbook, Handbook of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,
Handbook of Emerging Communications, and other titles.
CU Knovel Library --Combines essential and authoritative reference books and databases from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Industrial Press, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Covers 17 industrially important subject areas in the fields of Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering.
CU Safari Tech Books--Safari Bookshelf is an online library of several hundred full-text e-books covering topics such as computer programming languages, databases, software and hardware, human-computer interaction, markup languages, networking, and more. The books are collected from top publishers in the IT industry and are all searchable from this single platform.
International Organizations--Publications
and Statistics
ELDIS
Provides a gateway to information on development issues, providing
free and easy access to wide range of high quality online resources.
Coverage: varies.
Development Experience
(USAID)
The Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) acquires USAID-funded
publications for dissemination to the international development
community. Online services include searchable database, document
submission, e-mail subscription, and ordering documents and CD's.
Coverage: varies.
International Telecommunication
Union (ITU)
Provides the ITU-T (Telecommunication Standardisation Sector)
and ITU-R (Radiocommunication Sector) recommendations online. Ask
for assistance with the login and password at the Engineering Library.
Although the standards require a login and password, additional
information is freely available at the site. Coverage: current,
pre-published, and superseded recommendations. Coverage: varies.
ITU Strategy and Policy
Unit
Identifies emerging trends in the telecommunications environment
and analyzes their implications for ITU and its membership. Includes
a series of country case studies arrayed by country or topic.
ITU Telecommunication Development
Bureau
Provides statistics, free study group publications, databases
such as the Country Regulatory Profiles and OPERITU, and other information to
assist developing countries in the field of information and communication
technologies.
CU LexisNexis
Statistical
An index to statistics published by states, the US government,
international organizations, research centers, and trade groups
and others. Many statistics are available online. Others are available
in print and other formats. Ask for assistance with this database
in the Government Publications or Business libraries. Microfiche
in the S and U series are in Government Publications. The A, B,
C, and R series are housed in the Business Library. Coverage:
varies.
CU Source
OECD
SourceOECD from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
comprises 20 book collections by theme, containing all monographs
and reports; 24 periodicals; a reference title; and the OECD statistical
databases. A good source of economic statistics for developed nations.
Coverage: varies.
CU United
Nations Common Database
Provides selected data series from 30 specialized international
sources for all available countries and areas. Coverage: varies.
United Nations
Provides access to official UN publications and a wide array
of information from related organizations. After selecting a languge
for the site, choose "Issues on the UN Agenda" to access
a selection of documents, websites, speeches and other material
by theme.
United Nations Online Network
in Public Administration and Finance
The mission of UNPAN - United Nations Online Network in Public
Administration and Finance - is to promote the sharing of knowledge,
experiences and best practices throughout the world in sound public
policies, effective public administration and efficient civil services,
through capacity-building and cooperation among the United Nations
Member States, with emphasis on south-south cooperation and UNPAN's
commitment to integrity and excellence. Coverage: varies.
CU World
Bank E-Brary
Provides access to 1428 World Bank publications. Includes each
new book as it is published, and Policy Research Working Papers.
CU World
Development Indicators
This database aggregates statistics collected from governments and acencies across the globe. Economic, agricultural, and social statistics from over 200 developing nations are provided. It is provided through the World Bank. Coverage: varies, as early as 1960.
World Bank Private Development
Sector
This site offers best practice public policy advice for private
sector led growth in developing countries. Find expert analysis,
powerful databases, quick solutions, and comprehensive "how-to"
guides.
Patents page provides access
to US and foreign patent information, databases with images and texts
of US patents and images and text for recent foreign and international
patents.
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