Information Technology Resources
The UCSD Science & Engineering Library is a valuable resource for both the amateur and seasoned systems administrator. The following page highlights virtual reference tools from the S&E Library, including e-journals, article databases and dictionaries compiled from Sage, UCSD Libraries' collection of electronic resources, with a focus on resources relevant to information technology professionals.
Many library resources are tagged [UCSD Only]. Remote use of UCSD-Only licensed databases and electronic journals is restricted to UCSD faculty, staff, and students. Learn more about using the resources off-campus.
- Tech Dictionaries
- E-Books
- IT Magazines
- General IT
- IT Management
- Database Management
- Networks
- Security
- Software Engineering
- O'Reilly Tech Books via Safari: 1,300 O'Reilly IT/computing books. Includes titles on programming, operating systems, networking, security and software engineering. Simultaneous access is limited to 30 UC users, so please sign out when finished. [UCSD Only]
- Professional & Applied Computing: Over 500 IT books from Apress (Springer) [UCSD Only]
- ITKnowledgeBASE:Over 50 electronic books and over 1,500 IT-related articles [UCSD Only]
- InfoSECURITYnetBASE: Over 50 information security books from CRC Press [UCSD Only]
- IBM Redbooks: Special type of less formal IBM manuals.
- Knovel - Collection of 950 science and engineering handbooks and databases [UCSD Only]
- SYNTHESIS Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science - 200+ titles in this library of short lecture-sized books, synthesizing an important research topic. [UCSD Only]
- Baseline (2001-current)
- Byte (1994-current)
- Certification magazine: for certified professionals of information technology (2003-current, selected articles)[UCSD Only]
- CNET : Source for information about computers, the Internet, and digital technologies.
- ComputerWorld (1996-current) older issues available [UCSD Only]
- Dr. Dobb's Journal (current issue online, hard-copy back issues available)
- eWeek (1993-current) [UCSD Only]
- Information Week (1998-current)
- IT Professional (1996-current) [UCSD Only]
- MSDN Magazine (1996-current)
- Network Computing
- Network World (1997-current) [UCSD Only]
- PC Magazine (1992-current) [UCSD Only]
- PC World (1986-current) [UCSD Only]
- ACM Digital Library : Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full texts of works published by the Association for Computing Machinery and affiliated organizations.
- Computing Reviews: the leading online review service for computing literature.
- IEEE Explore: Article database of IEEE publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. [UCSD Only]
- INSPEC: Indexes articles in computers, electronics, biomedical, control, electrical & ocean engineering, physics, geophysics, astronomy, acoustics. [UCSD Only]
- Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
- ITKnowledgeBASE : Over 50 electronic books and over 1,500 IT-related articles. [UCSD Only]
- Journal of Information Technology (JIT) (1986-current, selected articles) [UCSD Only]
- ZDNet: Ziff-Davis site for reviews, news, downloads, how-to's and help guides, jobs, salary guide, and ZD published computer magazines.
- SkillSoft Web-Based Training: UCSD has contracted with SkillSoft to offer faculty, staff, and students a wide variety of free web-based courses. [UCSD Only].
- Certification magazine: for certified professionals of information technology (2003-current, selected articles)[UCSD Only]
- Ethics and Information Technology (1999-current) [UCSD Only]
- Information Technology and Management (2000-current)
- International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (2002-current, selected articles) [UCSD Only]
- Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) (2001-current, selected articles) [UCSD Only]
- ACM Transactions on Database Systems (1976-current) [UCSD Only]
- Computer Networks (1999-current)
- Mobile Networks and Applications (1996-current) [UCSD Only]
- US Department of Energy Cyber Incident Response Capability: U.S. Department of Energy site to check for computer virus news and hoaxes, email chain letters, and other security issues and resources.
- Virus Information Library: The McAfee AVERT Labs Threat Library has detailed information on viruses, Trojans, hoaxes, vulnerabilities and Potentially Unwanted Programs.
- InfoSECURITYnetBASE : Over 50 information security books from CRC Press [UCSD Only] [UCSD Only]
- Computer Fraud and Security (1996-current)
- IEEE: Preceedings: Information Security (2005-current) [UCSD Only]
- IEEE: Security and Privacy (2006-current) [UCSD Only]
- Information Security Technical Reports (1996-current) [UCSD Only]
- Information Systems Security (1995-current) [UCSD Only]
- Journal of Computer Security (1996-current) [UCSD Only]
- Network Security (1994-current) [UCSD Only]
- Software Engineering Instistute: Information on a variety of software topics, including management and technical practices, from Carnegie-Mellon.
- Information and Software Technology (1987-current, older issues available) [UCSD Only]
- Software Engineering Notes (ACM- SIGSOFT) (1976-current) [UCSD Only]
- International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (1999-current) [UCSD Only]
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (1988 - current) [UCSD Only]
- Automated Software Engineering (1994 - current) [UCSD Only]
- Journal of Software and Systems (1979 - current) [UCSD Only]
- Productivity Software (1999- current) [UCSD Only]
- Software and Systems Modeling (2002-current) [UCSD Only]
- International Journal on software tools for technology transfer (1997-current) [UCSD Only]
- Software Process: Improvement and Practice (1997-current) [UCSD Only]
