Information Science Research Guide
These Research Guides are intended as starting points for research.
Please contact the subject-specialist librarian if you have research questions, would like library instruction, or have material purchase requests.
Tracy Holtman
Systems Department - Office 250
phone: 254-968-9466
email: holtman@tarleton.edu
Help is also available by using the Ask a Librarian page, emailing reference@tarleton.edu, calling (254) 968-9249, or coming into the library.
Books, Documents, Reports, Journals Titles, AV Materials, Etc.
Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog - Database of all items owned by Tarleton Libraries. Look here for books, government reports, journal titles, videos, CDs, etc. Keyword searching is available.
Library of Texas - Search for Books and Articles from libraries located in Texas. The Library of Texas lets you pick the library collections you search, helping you locate items near you.
WorldCat - (FirstSearch Core) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If Tarleton does not own these items, they can be requested through Inter-Library Loan.
Databases and Journal articles
ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) - resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.
Annual Reviews - Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts - Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields. Examples of Information Systems related journals are: Journal of Systems and Software, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, SIAM Journal on Computing, and Information Management.
Business Source Complete - Journals in this field include: Searcher, Information Management Journal, Information Systems Security, and the International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making.
Computers and Applied Science Complete -- Contains abstracts and citations for articles covering topic such as acoustics, aeronautics, artificial intelligence, chemistry, computers, engineering, geology, plastics, textiles, and waste management. Over 485 scientific and technical publications are covered in this database.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text - The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Institutional subscribers to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text receive on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.
Emerald Ejournals - Emerald publishes the widest range of management titles and library & information services titles by any publisher. Information science titles include: Journal of Information Management, Information Technology & People, and Records Management Journal.
Library Literature and Information Science - is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
ScienceDirect - a Web database for scientific research that contains the full-text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available through the Internet. Examples of Information Systems journals indexed in this database are: Computers in Industry, Information & Management, Computer Languages, Journal of Operations Management and The Journal of Strategic Information Systems.
SpringerLINK - offers electronic and printed literature from Springer-Verlag, a preeminent scientific publisher with a reputation for excellence spanning more than 150 years. It also offers the work of a growing roster of publishers, including Urban and Vogel, Steinkopff, and Birkhäuser.
Wiley InterScience - full text of over 300 leading journals, including the Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Additional information may be obtained using the broad topic databases, such as Academic Search Complete from the Online Databases page.
E-Journals and Internet Links
- ELECTRONIC JOURNALS by Category (Subject).
- ELECTRONIC JOURNALS by title.
- METALIB: search multiple subject specific databases at once
- INTERNET LINKS: including Professional Societies and Organizations, Jobs, Employment, and internships.
02/2011