Use this guide as a starting point to find books, articles, and authoritative Web sites for your CITA 460 research paper.

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Find Books

Use books for information on broad topics or in-depth information on a particular issue or topic.

Use the following terms in "keyword in subject" searches to limit your search to book that are about information systems.

• computer science
• computers
• computers and civilization
• cyberspace
• electronic commerce
• information society
• information technology
• internet
• internet industry

Find Articles

The information in articles typically focuses on a specific aspect of a topic. Scholarly articles report on findings from research projects, while trade magazine stories offer industry news, industry trends, and overviews of hot issues (that may refer to scholarly research).

Core Library Article Databases

Business Source Complete
Includes articles from numerous information technology and business scholarly journals, trade magazines and newspapers, with an emphasis on the business applications of information systems.

ScienceDirect
An extensive collection of full-text articles from business and information technology scholarly journals.

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete
Abstracts and some full-text from scholarly journals, professional publications, and encyclopedias on the research and development aspects of computing and applied sciences.

Computer Source
Abstracts and full-text from trade magazines and scholarly journals.

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive collection of articles from a wide range of scholarly journals, trade publications and newspapers.

Free Online Journals & Trade Magazines

Scirus
An excellent online search engine for scholarly publications. Your searches may lead you back to ScienceDirect to retrieve full-text, to articles available at no cost on the open Web, or to article abstracts where access to full-text is offered for a fee. Check with a reference librarian to see if we can access the article for you through our databases or to request the article through interlibrary loan (ILLiad), a free service.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
A comprehensive collection of free, online, full-text articles from scholarly journals.

Find Web Sites

ComputerWorld
A key trade publication for technology news and information.

Informationweek
A well-respected trade publication that offers news, blogs, image galleries, proprietary research as well as analysis of IT trends, a whitepaper library, video reports and interactive tools.

Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)
A professional organization Web site that includes information technology policy statements relevant to competitiveness, sourcing, immigration, information security, intellectual property, global IT policy, internet & telecom, tax/finance, and the public sector.