Finding Tools

 

Library Catalog: There you can search for books, periodicals, and reserve materials and non-print materials.

 

Electronic Journals Portal: This portal serves as a catalog for finding e-journals that are contained in the databases subscribed by the library. When searching for specific title, it shows you in which database/s you can find it and its holdings. This portal also classifies journals by subject so you can see how many and which titles are available for a specific discipline or topic.

Print Resources

Key to Locations

To find print materials, search the library catalog, write down the Call Number and use it to find the material on the shelves. To locate materials use the Library Floor Plans mounted next to the elevator on each floor, or the Guide to Call Numbers and Subject locations that you can find on the library webpage.

 

Reference Sources: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks.

These sources are located on the ground floor. They are for in-house usage only. Selected titles: 

Ref T39 .B49 1996                    Biographical dictionary of the history of technology

Ref QA76.15 .M538 1999          Microsoft computer dictionary

 

Books

The Library uses Library of Congress classification scheme, which organizes books according to subject. This means that books stacked together cover the same or closely related subjects. You can find the Library of Congress classification scheme on the walls of the basement and Ground floor or online. The Library's collection of economics books is located on the 2 floor – Q and T  sections. Here are some useful subjects in the area computer science and information systems

Q SCIENCE

  QA Mathematics

  QA76 Computer Science

T TECHNOLOGY

  TJ Mechanical Engineering

 TK Electrical Engineering. Electronics
           

Newspapers

The library subscribes to several Bulgarian and several American daily newspapers in print. The current issue can be located on the Ground floor. Recent issues can be found in folders on the shelves behind them. Back issues have to be requested at Circulation Desk. Newspapers cannot be checked out.

 

Journals

The library subscribes to around 250 scientific journals and popular magazines in print. They are searchable by the library catalog. Recent issues are located on the Ground floor and are organized alphabetically by title. A list of all subscriptions is available on the library webpage (www.aubg.bg/library), as well as a list of all circulating ones. Most popular magazines can be borrowed for a period of 3 days but scientific journals are for in-house use. Back issues of newspapers and magazines are stored in Compact Shelves in the Basement and have to be requested at the Circulation Desk. Here are some suggestions for titles in business and economics:

Combinatorics, Probability and Computing

Computer *

Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software tools for the professional programmer

MSDN Magazine

IBM System Journal

IEEE Intelligent systems

IEEE Internet Computing 

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Knowledge Engineering Review

Mathematical Intelligencer

 

Electronic Resources

Key to Locations

Electronic resources can be accessed from any computer in the AUBG network (computer labs and personal computers located in the Main Building, NAB, Dormitories, Library and Elieff Center). Some electronic resources can be accessed off-campus. Students not living in Skaptopara can contact reference librarians for further information.

A list of links to databases organized alphabetically is available on the library web page. A short description of all the databases can be found in Research Help » Databases A-Z.

 

Reference Sources 

Encyclopedia Britannica. One of the most trusted sources of information on any topic used in research to provide background information.

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection contains about 175 + dictionaries, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, plus all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

 

E-Books

E-brary. An e-book collection of over 47,000 full-text books of all academic subject areas and from leading publishers.

 

E-Journals

Full-Text Databases

 

EBSCOhost Databases EBSCOhost offers a variety of proprietary full-text databases and popular databases from leading information providers that range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases.

 

Academic Search Premier  This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

 

ProQuest Central  It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today totaling more than 12,665 titles—with over 9,745 titles in full text.

 

Science Direct Freedom Collection offers a collection of high-quality journal articles online. Content includes access to over 2500 full-text scientific journals and e-books dating back to 2003.

 

You can find in these databases journals with high impact factor and ranking such:

Information Systems,

IBM Journal of Research and Development,

IEEE software,

ACM Transactions on database system,

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing,

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering,

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Communications of the ACM

Journal of Machine Learning Research

SIAM Journal on Computing

Journal of Computer and System Sciences