Which computing publisher has the best refereed research resources for the working programmer?

Question

When I have a problem I often search the computing literature.

Some of the resources[*] I use are:

The professional associations?

• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Xplore

The scientific publishers?

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• HCI Bibliography

What do you use? What is the best resource source (if there is one) for the working programmer?

[*] after stackoverflow and google of course :)

PS what tags should I use for this question?

Answer 1

Language or platform dependant I think, but it's all the .orgs - cpan, zvon, w3 and quirksmode - amongst others in my \bookmarks\library folder.

Honestly I think SO and google are the best resources for specific questions.

If I could make an anti-suggestion: I've got a greasemonkey script to nuke MSDN (yes) and expertsexchange.com from my searches. So many broken links, hidden info, and special (as in not general) solutions with the most trite and trivial examples if you do miraculously find something. Just awful.

SO ftw!

Answer 2

www.google.com I think it's a kind of a digital library. :-P

Answer 3

I found my library has a useful service that lists the full-text services that they are subscribed to by discipline; in my case selecting computer science returned the following:

ACM Digital Library

Full text of articles published by ACM in the area of computing and information technology.

IEEE Xplore

Full text of over 100 publications from IEEE and IEE on electronic and electrical engineering.

Inspec

Indexes journals and conference proceedings in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering.

Intute: Science, Engineering, & Technology

Index to high quality internet resources which are selected, indexed and described by subject and information specialists. Science, Engineering and Technology part of the Intute service.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Series covering new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.

MathSciNet (AMS)

Comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940.

SIAM Journals Online

Applied mathematics and computer science journals.

SpringerLink

Full text journals from Springer.

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary database, incorporating ISI Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™. Also offers cited reference searching, enabling users to find out which other articles cite a particular article.

Answer 4

My library has a service that searches across a bunch of computing paper databases (Including ACM Digital Library, the IEEE one and Springer)

Metasearch I think it's called. But you probably can only get it if you are at a university.

Answer 5

ACM DL and Web of Science have improved their interfaces a lot lately.

Answer 6

Besides some of the ones already listed, I use Citeseer and Google Scholar (they are free of charge).
I also use Books24x7.com, and OReilly's Safari.