Research links

This page is a collection of useful links concerning research processes/methods ("Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten"). Note that the content may have a bias towards computer science, information systems and related disciplines.

Slides

 * A (german-language) slideset - mainly covering literature search and writing. I use these slides for our institute's quarterly student seminar.

Literature search engines

 * http://scholar.google.de/
 * http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
 * http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/directory.html
 * http://libra.msra.cn/
 * http://portal.acm.org/
 * http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
 * http://www.io-port.net/
 * http://www.vascoda.de/
 * http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
 * http://www.findarticles.com/
 * http://www.sciencedirect.com/
 * http://www.ingentaconnect.com/

Karlsruhe-specific search engines

 * http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/suchmaske.html
 * http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
 * http://www.bibliotheksportal-karlsruhe.de/
 * http://titan.bsz-bw.de/bibscout

Literature scan and delivery services

 * http://www.subito-doc.de/
 * http://www.tib.uni-hannover.de/dokumentlieferung/
 * http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/d_home.html
 * http://lea.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/lea/ (only Karlsruhe)

Social bookmark and publication sharing

 * http://www.bibsonomy.org/
 * http://www.citeulike.org/

Conference and Journal rankings
Take these links with care!


 * http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/seconferences.htm
 * http://www.conference-ranking.net/
 * http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/htmldocs/ConfRanking.html
 * http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/
 * http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~guofei/CS_ConfRank.htm
 * http://home.aisnet.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=345
 * http://wwwai.wu-wien.ac.at/%7Ehahsler/journal_ranking/
 * http://www.isworld.org/csaunders/rankings.htm
 * http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/research/rankings.html
 * http://hal.boku.ac.at/fao/journal_ranking
 * http://www.acm.org/pubs/periodicals/reviews/isiranking.html

Meta-analysis articles

 * Robert L. Glass, Venkataraman Ramesh, Iris Vessey: An analysis of research in computing disciplines. Commun. ACM (CACM) 47(6):89-94 (2004)
 * Venkataraman Ramesh, Robert L. Glass, Iris Vessey: Research in computer science: an empirical study. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) 70(1-2):165-176 (2004)