Databases by Subject - Interactive Media & Game Development

See also Computer Science.

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
ACM Digital Library	Citations and full text from Association for Computing Machinery journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1968-	Y
Blackwell Synergy	Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included \| Search Help	1879-	Y
Books 24x7	Full text online of more than 7,000 computer, information technology, and engineering books from many publishers. To connect, users must register for an account using their @wpi.edu email. Visitors may use on public workstations near reference desk. Help \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
EBSCOhost Business Source Premier	Includes full text for 2,300+ business journals, indexes 3,300+ titles, as well as industry reports and company profiles from Datamonitor. Journals Included \| Other Sources \| Tutorial	1922-	Y
Emerald Computer Abstracts International Database	Search abstracts of articles on computer science topics, a part of the Emerald Library search. Journals Indexed	1987-	N
ERIC Database	Abstracts on educational topics. Maintained by the Education Resources Information Center of the U.S. Department of Education. Full text non-journal documents issued 1993+ are available free. Useful for finding research on use of games in education. Search Tips	1966-	Y
General BusinessFile ASAP	InfoTrac database includes business and industry articles, company directory listings, and investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. Includes full text of Game Developer magazine, as well as industry information under Advanced Search, Investext for investment reports.Titles Included	1980-	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
IEEE Xplore	Full text of all IEEE and IET journal articles, conference papers, and standards. Titles Included \| FAQ Tips \| User Guide	1913, 1988+ for most	Y
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic	Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Safari Tech Books Online	900+ computer and information technology books from O'Reilly and Associates. Other publishers books are searchable but we do not have access to the full text. For these, users will see "PREVIEW -Additional content appearing in this section has been removed." Search Tips	Varies	Y
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y

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