Sources for literature research

Literature research is an important part of your thesis project and of scientific work in general. At this page you’ll find directions to several on-line sources for scientific literature.

• The library of Utrecht University
  Two important entry points into the literature of the library are:
  • UBU: provides you access to books, conference proceedings and printed journals
  • Full-text UBU: provides full text access to journals, newspapers, bibliographies, reference works and dissertations that can be downloaded instantly
  • The university also provides access to the catalogues of the following institutions, which are relevant in the area of computer and information science.
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    • Springerlink
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Online resources (Reservations can sometimes be made via the ICS library that is located at the 3rd floor in CGN)
  • Picarta: access to the catalogues of all universities in the Netherlands.
  • Elsevier
  • Wiley Interscience
  • Taylor & Francis
  • Emerald library
• Search engines with a focus on scientific material.
  • Citeseer (search results ranked on basis of citations)
  • Google Scholar
  • Scirus

Last modified by Virginia Dignum on 21 February 2005