Library Guides: Computer Science: Books

Searching for Books

To find books (and much more) in the Library, try the Library catalog, the Library's discovery tool for print and electronic resources of all kinds.

University of Chicago Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Find items in all campus libraries, including books, periodicals, sound recordings, videos, DVDs and more.

E-books

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text of ACM publications including conference proceedings.
ACM Digital Library offers citations and full-text articles from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals and newsletter articles, as well as conference proceedings. ACM is a widely recognized premier membership organization for computing professionals. Limit of 3 simultaneous user(s).

Many electronic books can be found by searching the Library Catalog

These web sites provide access to computer science ebooks:

IBM Redbooks
This set of technical books from IBM are designed to deliver "skills, technical know-how, and materials to IBM technical professionals, Business Partners, clients, and the marketplace in general."

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Full text of all IEEE Computer Society publications, including proceedings; 1988 to present.
Provides access to all IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journals, transactions, and magazines, and to The Proceedings of the IEEE. Disciplines include computing, telecommunications, power, and dozens of others.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Full text of most volumes in this series.
Morgan and Claypool Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Includes 50-100 page electronic books, written by experts, that synthesize important research or development topics in computer science and engineering.
Numerical Recipes
Electronic version of Numerical recipes, 3rd edition, 2007. Instructions for downloading a necessary Adobe plug-in are included on the main page.
The Online Books Page
An extensive list of freely available online books. List can be browsed by author, title, and subject; can be searched by author and title.

SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Full text of most titles published from 2005 to present.
Allows full-text searching of Springer-Verlag electronic resources, including thousands of electronic books in a wide variety of subjects. Includes most books published from 2005 and titles in book series from 1997. This database includes books, book chapters, and journal articles; search results can be limited by type of resource, author, subject, language, and publication date.

Contact Information

Jennifer Hart
Librarian for Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
Ryerson Physical Laboratory 156
773-702-7569
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