Research Links

Open Access Resources

• arXiv.org

  The Cornell University Library provides open access to 642,550 e-prints (pre-peer review) in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics through arXiv.org. A majority of the e-prints are also submitted to journals for publication, but some work, including some very influential papers, remain purely as e-prints and are never published in a peer-reviewed journal.
• CiteSeer

  A scientific digital library and search engine that uses advanced features to harvest full-text scholarly documents from the web. Articles are freely available here because they are retrieved from author’s websites, or submitted by the authors themselves.
• eScholarship

  The open-access digital repository of the University of California system. Users have free access to books, articles, working papers, theses and dissertations, as well author’s copies of published works.
• ISO Publications

  Access the International Organization for Standardization’s publications, many of which can be downloaded free.

Government Resources

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

  A finding tool for publications of U.S. Government Agencies both current and historic. This tool provides direct access to online publications. If a publication of interest is not available online there is an option to find it in the nearest federal depository library.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)

  The DTIC provides access to technical information and scientific and business reports relating to the U.S. Department of Defense and other government agency funded research.
• Homeland Security Digital Library

  The Homeland Security Digital Library is the nation’s premier collection of open-source resources related to homeland security policy, strategy and organizational management. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies. You must request access to the HSDL. Access is restricted to U.S. citizens.
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Virtual Library

  The NIST Virtual Library provides access to e-journals and government documents. The NIST Virtual Library, which is open to visitors, provides access to several online journals. Articles from the NIST Journal of Research dating back to 1982 are available in PDF format.
• National Technical Reports Library

  Publicly available search interface to the NTIS Bibliographic Database with links to over 600,000 digitized full-text reports. Free registration required to download reports.

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  Documents in the NTIS Technical Reports collection are the results of federally funded research. They are directly submitted to or collected by NTIS from Federal agencies for permanent accessibility to industry, academia and the public. Before purchasing from NTIS, you may want to check for free access from (1) the issuing organization’s website; (2) the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s Federal Digital System website http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys; (3) the federal government Internet portal USA.gov; or (4) a web search conducted using a commercial search engine.
• Science.gov

  Science.gov searches fifty databases, 2100 Web sites, 200 million pages from 13 federal agencies. Information available includes research and development results

Commercial Resources

• Biznar

  A deep-web search engine, Biznar scans the best business websites on the Internet, including blogs, news sites, market research reports, patent sources, government documents and deep web sources, returning the most relevant results to one, easily navigable, ranked page. Note that results may link to fee-based sources
• Google Scholar

  Google Scholar provides full text of legal opinions issued by state and federal courts. While case law can be searched by cases cited, in order to verify whether a ruling is still good law, sources such from fee-based sources are authoritive. Be advised that links can lead the user to fee-based sources.
• INFOSEC Institute

  Papers, ebooks, and articles.
• Microsoft Academic

  A growing academic search engine . In using its data mining technology, researchers can quickly locate top publications in a field, the top authors, top conferences, etc by clicking on the Domain List. There are sub-domains for Security/Privacy and Bioinformatics. It includes many visualization tools such as citation charts, organization comparisons, co-author maps, advisor/advisee maps. Those hoping to publish can use the CFP(Call for Papers) Calendar.
• Techweb Digital Library

  This resouce provides access to hundreds of vendor white papers and case studies with respect to IT solutions.NOTE: These are NOT peer-reviewed articles!
• WorldCat

  Is an online global catalog of book, periodical, microfilm and electronic resource titles. This free database allows the student to locate these materials in the libraries closest to where the student lives. Interlibrary loan can take a long time and can be expensive. It may be quicker and more cost effective to the student to obtain the material from a nearby library.