Computer Science Technical Reports

While many individual university departments make their computer science technical reports publicly aviailable under the open archives model, it is only the New Zealand Digital Library that harvests and makes searchable in one place reports from nearly 300 different institutions. Instructions for advanced searching are available in the help section. An excellent resource that saves the trouble of identifying and searching individual repositories for up-to-date computer science information.

CiteSeerX Beta

Today's reference site is CiteSeerX, a scientific (primarily computer and information science) digital library and search engine from Penn State University. In addition to over one million articles in its database of articles, CiteSeerX provides a suite of discovery tools to assist researchers in finding the most relevant literature, including citation rankings and impact ratings.

Advanced search provides a variety of search fields and sorting criteria. Results can be sorted by number of citations, recency, relevance and date order.

CiteSeerX provides a number of search and discovery features beyond just indexed content: autonomous citation indexing, reference linking, citation context, related content and query-sensistive summaries are only some of the advantages of the CiteSeerX interface.

Go to town, searchers.