Research Guides: Cybersecurity Research Guide: Databases and finding articles

University Database best bets for Cybersecurity Research

ACM Digital Library
Full-text and abstracts on computer science, plus video and audio files (Sample titles: Communications of the ACM, XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Computers in Entertainment)
IEEE Xplore
Find articles and other information from the journals, proceedings and standards published by IEEE and by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Full-text is from 1988 to present with some selected earlier content.
Business Source Premier
Full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Covers more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.

SAGE Journals
This source has wide ranging coverage of science and information technology journals

ScienceDirect
This source has wide ranging coverage of science journals and ebooks

Additional University Databases for Cybersecurity Research

Academic Search Premier
Our largest, multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,700 journals, including full text for more than 4,000 peer-reviewed titles and indexes nearly 13,600 journal titles
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Full-text articles on criminal justice and related issues from journals, books, and government reports.
Criminal Justice Collection
For the study of law, law enforcement, terrorism, homeland security, forensic science, policy development, sociological reports; information from more than 250 journals.
HeinOnline
An ever-expanding database that specializes in offering original PDF copies of full-runs of legal collections. It includes: most major legal periodicals, federal and state statutes, court decisions, attorney general reports and opinions, federal legislative history materials, treaties, foreign & international law material, and numerous specialized legal collections. The text of collections are fully searchable and there are tools to browse or find items by citation.
JSTOR
Full-text articles from hundreds of core humanities journals, some dating back to 1665.

Open Access Databases

These search engines can be helpful with broader research on your topic. There are two ways you tailor your search engines to display Sacred Heart University holdings -- on Google Scholar and on Google Chrome using LibKey Nomad (see side box on this page for more info.)

It is also possible to check to see if the library has access for any given article by using the Citation linker. (see side box on this page for more info)

Google Scholar
"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites." - About Google Scholar
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is an index of more than 6 million items of open access research in computer and information science. It has extensive citation data, though this does not include publishers' proprietary metadata.
Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
This online database is part of the arXiv preprints repository. It contains more than 75,000 eprints in Computer Science. CoRR is an international project led by arXiv.org, ACM and the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL).
Computing Reviews
The leading review service for books and articles across all disciplines of computing.
DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
This service provides open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
Science of Security (SoS) Search Page
The Science of Security (SoS) Initiative at the National Security Agency Research Directorate promotes foundational cybersecurity science that is needed to mature the cybersecurity discipline and to underpin advances in cyberdefense.

Library hacks

With a small amount of effort, you can tailor search engines like Google Scholar or regular Google to display Sacred Heart University library holdings.

1) On your favorite browser, open Google Scholar. Open Settings (left side menu) and the Library links. Search for and select Sacred Heart University - Full Text @ SHU Library and Sacred Heart University - Proquest Full text - as well as Open World Cat Library Search.

2) On Google Chrome, install the LibKey Nomad browser extension from the Chrome Web Store and select Sacred Heart University as your institution. LibKey Nomad instantly provides links to full text articles subscribed to by the Sacred Heart University Library. For more info and a video, see this LibKey Nomad page.

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