Unlike other scholars in the natural sciences and social sciences, computer scientists do not communicate most of their scholarly findings in journals. They prefer to publish in conference proceedings, the printed version of presentations at academic meetings, conferences, symposia, etc. You can find conference proceedings in BU Libraries Search like any other item in the BU Libraries collections. Some of them are published as single books while others are published periodically like journals.
The resources listed below will guide you to both journal articles and papers published in conference proceedings.
These resources will help you to find scholarly literature on computer science, often including related disciplines like mathematics and engineering.
ACM Digital Library is a database of all materials published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including articles and conference proceedings. Abstracts of books are also provided.
Engineering Village is a discovery platform that allows researchers to search across multiple databases (Compendex and Inspec) simultaneously. The platform provides powerful features to refine and filter searches and to sort and format search results and link to full text articles.
MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for the mathematical sciences. Reviews are classified and searchable according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Continues the publication Mathematical Reviews, first published in 1940. Reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of current literature.
These databases do not focus on computer science or related literature solely, but they are good choices for interdisciplinary research.
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
A multidisciplinary science database designed for students and non-specialists. Subjects includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health, medicine, oceanography, physics, and zoology. Covers leading journals and magazines, biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, and special issues of journals. Also covers the New York Times Science Section and cites book reviews.