Informatics & New Media
What is Informatics?Informatics is...
Informatics is a new field of study that gives students the skills to apply information technology to another field - from health care to journalism to biology to economics. Informaticists can then use technology to harness the power of information and make exciting new discoveries that make us more productive at home and at work. IUPUI School of Informatics http://informatics.iupui.edu/overview/what_is_informatics.php
Research Tip:Use these terms when searching for informatics-related items in IUCAT and article databases. Note: this is not an exhaustive list. Students in I503: Use this research guide to find appropriate resources for your projects. Finding ArticlesSubscription Databases:ACM Portal (ACM Digital Library and Guide to Computing Literature)-Full text of every article ever published by ACM. Annual Reviews-Authoritative, analytical resource "...synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field" on an annual basis for a variety of scientific and social science disciplines. IUPUI provides extensive current and historical access for the life, health, and medical sciences. Titles include Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genomics and Human Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Physiology. Searches can be done by title, across the collection or by subject series (e.g. Biomedical Life Sciences). To customize your search, from the Search interface, choose Publications pull-down menu: Return reviews published in. New Applied Science and Technology Full Text (Wilson)-Indexes articles, product evaluations, and book reviews in over 390 leading English-language periodicals published in the U.S. and elsewhere. The database includes trade and industrial publications, journals of professional and learned societies, and specialized subject periodicals. Art Full Text (Wilson)ARTbibliographies Modern (CSA)-Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 12-13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (CSA)-Contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making it the largest index of its kind in the world. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract. IEEE Computer Society Digital Library-Provides online access to 22 society magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings. IET Journals page-Describes the IET journals, which can be accessed via IEEE Xplore. Topics include communications and networks; image processing; computer vision; medical equipment technology; synthetic biology; systems biology; nanobiotechnology. IEEE Xplore-Provides full text access to the complete IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) of IEEE and IET journals, transactions, society publications, magazines, and conference papers. Includes search and linking to content from the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. AbstractPlus records and full text is provided for content published since 1988, and for select content published since 1913. IEEE provides the "world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics." NewLISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts (CSA)-An international "abstracting and indexing" tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. Web of Science (ISI)-Provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles. Wiley Interscience Journal Search (Wiley)-More than 300 online publications for researchers and professionals.Open Access Resources:Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)-Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals-Publishes peer-reviewed, open-access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles. Campus membership provides a discount to authors for the article publication fee. New
Finding Books & MediaBooks
Enter IUCAT. From the home search page, start with simple keyword searches using general concepts connected with AND (e.g. programming AND Linux). If you have logged in to IUCAT, you can use the Request Delivery system to request that a book available at another IU library, but not available here, be sent here for you to pick up. Ebooks New! ebook "Meta" Search-Simultaneously search University Library's ebook collections*. Enter IUCAT. From the home search page, under More IUCAT Searches, select "E-book Search (Beta)". Start with simple keyword searches using general concepts connected with AND (e.g. programming AND Linux). If you do multiple ebook searches, use the IUCAT "Go Back" tab when starting new searches to avoid being "bumped out" of the ebook search. *Books 24X7 IT Pro-Contains hundreds of ebooks from top publishers such as MIT Press, Microsoft Press, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley. Security requirements require that on- and off-campus users start each session by using a library link to the resource and logging in to the library's proxy server using their campus network ID and password. *Ebrary-Multiple academic subject and general interest ebook collection. For help on using this and other ebook services, view our eBooks tutorial. *NetLibrary-Multiple academic subject and general interest ebook collection. When you enter the site from an affiliated library, you will see the name of your library in the box on the right side of the screen. *Safari Books Online-An e-reference library of nearly 1200 books published by O'Reilly and appropriate for programmers and IT professionals. These ebooks are also searchable via IUCAT. New [Learn how to use Safari] Springer ebook collection-Access Springer ebooks and articles from 2005 through 2007, including some from 2008 and 2009. Access is available via the link. Materials which can be accessed are marked with a green square. Items can also be identified and accessed via IUCAT. New Dissertations and ThesesDissertations & Theses (ProQuest)-Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQTD) represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world. Reference MaterialsOnline Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Handbooks:Major online resources Annual Reviews-Authoritative, analytical resource "...synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field" on an annual basis for a variety of scientific and social science disciplines. IUPUI provides extensive current and historical access for the life, health, and medical sciences. Titles include Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genomics and Human Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Physiology. Searches can be done by title, across the collection or by subject series (e.g. Biomedical Life Sciences). To customize your search, from the Search interface, choose Publications pull-down menu: Return reviews published in. New Encyclopedia Britannica Online-Combines scholarly content with thousands of video clips, images, and animations. Gale Virtual Reference Library-Large collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias. Search by individual title, across the collection (Basic Search), or by subject (Advanced Search: limit results by subject area). Subject collections include Arts (e.g. filmakers and the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film); Business (e.g. e-commerce); Education (e.g. applications of information and communication technology); General Reference (e.g. acronyms and abbreviations); Law (e.g. survey of state laws); Science; Social Science (e.g. bioethics resources and The Healthcare System; and Technology. McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2007)-McGraw Hill's "flagship" technology reference title. Please see link within the Science subject collection at webpage: Gale Virtual Reference Library. The Encyclopedia "covers the latest developments" in topics in theoretical and applied science and technology, including cellular and molecular biology. New Oxford Reference Online-Large collection of high quality, up-to-date dictionaries; search by individual title, subject collection or across the collection to obtain entries cross-referenced by discipline. Includes terms, symbols, processes, and entry-level web links etc. for subjects such as Arts and Architecture, incl. modern design; Performing Arts; Biological Sciences, incl. biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics; Computing, incl. databases, networks, and multimedia; Physical Sciences & Mathematics, incl. statistics terms and distributions. Mathematics and Writing Tools
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Springer ebook collection - Access resources mentioned above, and other Springer ebooks from 2005 through 2007, including some from 2008 and 2009. Print Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Handbooks*General
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Organizations & AssociationsAssociation for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)-Founded in 1981, AACE is "an international, not-for-profit, educational organization with the mission of advancing Information Technology in Education and E-Learning research, development, learning, and its practical application". Assocation for Computing Machinery (ACM)-"The world's largest educational and scietific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-"A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology". Web ResourcesBlogs:
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