Resources for CS researchers

General

• GU Directory of Computer Databases (Follow CS & Mathematics link to ACM & IEEE Digital Libraries, Current Contents, INSPEC, ScienceDirect, Wiley Interscience, etc.)
• ACM Digital Library (subscription required)
• IEEE Digital Library (subscription required)
• SIAM Journals Online (subscription required)
• ScienceDirect (Elsevier journals, subscription required, but free alerting service)
• Kluwer Journals (subscription required)
• Springer LINK (subscription required, but free alerting service)
• Wiley Interscience e-journals (subscription required)
• Computing Reviews

• CoRR (arXiv.org e-print repository)
• Google Scholar (An index to the academic literature, Google)
• DBLP Bibliography (An index to the CS literature, Michael Ley, Trier)
• Collection of CS Bibliographies
• Hypertext Bibliography Project
• New Zealand Digital Library
• NCSTRL (Networked CS Technical Report Library)
• MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews) (subscription required)
• ResearchIndex (CiteSeer) (Who cited what?)
• Home Page Search (Where is whom? Gerd Hoff, Trier)
• (Mathematics & CS Resources) (Argonne)
• Computer Science Organisations (Trier)

Free online journals

• ACM J. Experimental Algorithmics
• Chicago J. of Theoretical Computer Science (still active???)
• Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
• (Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity)
• (Electronic J. Combinatorics)
• (Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS)
• Electronic Trans. on Artificial Intelligence (still active???)
• J. Artificial Intelligence Research
• (J. Electronic Publishing)
• J. Functional and Logic Programming
• J. Machine Learning Research
• J. Universal Computer Science

Advice

• Collected advice on research and writing (Mark Leone, CMU)
• Technical writing and research ethics (Justin Zobel, RMIT)
• Finding research on the Web (explains how to use the general resources listed above, Justin Zobel, RMIT)

For many reasons (ask me), most CS research documents should be prepared using LaTeX. High quality LaTeX preparation systems are available on all platforms. The standard introduction and reference is LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, second edition, by Leslie Lamport (Addison-Wesley, 1994). The several LaTeX Companions by Michel Goossens et al. are also important resources. Online starting points and references include the following:

• The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e (an excellent, free introduction, Tobias Oetiker et al., ETHZ) (PDF, local mirror)
• Getting started with TeX and LaTeX (TUG)
• Text Processing using LaTeX (Tim Love, Cambridge)
• TeX (and LaTeX) resources on the Web (TUG)
• TeX (and LaTeX) frequently asked questions (UK TUG)