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Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC) - Glossary

Description: This Glossary includes words and definitions taken directly from NIST's cybersecurity and privacy-related Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), NIST Special Publications (SPs), and NIST Internal/Interagency Reports (IRs), as well as CNSS Instruction CNSSI-4009.

ComputerLanguage.com

Description: The Computer Language Company Inc. was founded in 1978 by husband-wife team Alan Freedman and Irma Morrison. When Freedman couldn't find a computer dictionary that would meaningfully augment the computer literacy classes he taught to Fortune 500 companies, he set out on a quest to purchase his first computer and write this "glaringly missing" reference. The year 1980 was explosive for personal computers, and buzzwords were everywhere. Self-published with 300-terms, The Computer Glossary was a huge success in hundreds of seminars. Within a few years, writing the dictionary became a full-time job, and eventually, 300 entries grew to more than 25,000 along with 6,000 images and 80,000 cross-references.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966

Description: The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. The series originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

Description: publish more than 850 journals and over 800 books, reference works and databases a year in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine.

Core

Description: CORE aims to aggregate all open access research and facilitate unrestricted access to research. It allows users to check more than 66 million open access articles.

Credo Reference

Description: Credo is an information skills solutions provider that serves over 2,500 educational institutions and public libraries worldwide. We build platforms that enable the flexible configuration of technology, content and services for the purpose of connecting learners, faculty and teachers, librarians and publishers. The guiding principle of Credo's product strategy is simple—partner with industry leaders to do what the industry cannot do for itself by providing a platform to promote knowledge building, problem solving and critical thinking.

CumInCAD

Description: CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer-aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information about over 12,300 records from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, ASCAAD, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD futures, DDSS and others.

DBLP: computer science bibliography

Description: The DBLP computer science bibliography provides open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Originally created at the University of Trier in 1993, DBLP is now operated and further developed by Schloss Dagstuhl.

De Gruyter's Open Content

Description: As an independent academic publisher disseminating excellent scholarship since 1749, we remain true to our founding spirit, yet also have ambitious plans for the future. Thanks to our proactive embrace of digital transformation, cutting-edge research is reaching an ever-broader global audience, it publishes over 1,100 books and over 16,000 journal articles every year, including more than 100 books and 4,500 articles in open access, across the humanities, sciences, technology, medicine and social sciences.

Dental Update

Description: Dental Update publishes postgraduate articles covering new and established clinical treatment. All articles are peer-reviewed, offering subscribers an unbiased and professional platform for continuing professional development and education in the UK. Dental Update is read by general and specialist practitioners, hospital dentists, and an increasing number of dental students and hygienists. The principal aim of the journal is to offer the general dental practitioner (and specialists in other sub-disciplines of dentistry) a source of continuing education and a forum for discussion. Dental Update carries 44 hours of verifiable CPD per year, NGU subscription is for the issue of 2020:2021.

Dictionary.com

Description: Dictionary.com is the world’s leading digital dictionary. Which provide millions of English definitions, spellings, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and word origins. Dictionary.com’s main, proprietary source is the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, which is continually updated by a team of experienced lexicographers and supplemented with trusted, established sources including American Heritage and Harper Collins to support a range of language needs.

Directory of Open Access Books

Description: DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

Description: The primary aim of DOAB is to increase the discoverability of open access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their open access books to DOAB. DOAB is an open infrastructure committed to open science. It runs on the open-source DSpace 6 platform. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility, and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records into their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogs, helping scholars and students discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer-reviewed books in open access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in open access and meet academic standards.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Description: The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. Today, this independent database contains over 16 500 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion.

Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources (ROAD)

Description: ROAD is the acronym for Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources. This is a free service provided by the ISSN International Centre. ROAD was launched as an independent website in December 2013 by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. ROAD is now integrated into the ISSN portal. provides free access to a subset of ISSN bibliographic records. These records describe the scholarly resources in open access that have been identified by the ISSN Network.

East view information services

Description: East View offers a broad range of library services and databases of global authoritative content, including numerous collections from Russia and the former Soviet states, East Asia, and the Middle East.

EBSCO Essentials

Description: Search EBSCO Essentials to find trusted free research and reference content.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

Description: OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research.

EconBiz

Description: EconBiz offers orientation and help in the search for articles, working papers, e-books, and more. Result lists can be sorted according to relevance or date. A variety of filter options help you find the relevant titles more quickly. Individual support helps you with the search for and access to the full text. The integrated Thesaurus for Economics (STW) helps with topic searches by e.g. including synonyms in the search.

El-Shami Library, Information and Archival Terminology

Description: This online glossary provides useful information about the library, information, and archival concepts. The emphasis of this site is on: library, information, and archival terminology in both Arabic and English. These terms are certainly of interest to you. I am making an effort to present you with the English, as well as the Arabic versions of the terms. The terms are cross-referenced and linked to the related internet sites as appropriate.

Elsevier BackFiles for Journals

Description: Elsevier has been helping professionals advance knowledge For over 135 years, by expanding the body of information and enabling it to yield positive, measurable results. Elsevier is an information solutions company with roots in publishing scientific, medical, and technical literature.

Emerald Insight

Description: Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Today, we continue to nurture fresh thinking in applied fields where we feel we can make a real difference, now also including health and social care, education, and engineering.

Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Description: The Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki is an open access resource designed specifically for the mathematics community. The original articles are from the online Encyclopedia of Mathematics, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002. With more than 8,000 entries, illuminating nearly 50,000 notions in mathematics, it was the most up-to-date graduate-level reference work in the field of mathematics.

Encyclopedia of World History

Description: Encyclopedia of World History is a non-profit educational company established in 2009 by Jan van der Kraben. The organization publishes and maintains articles, photos, videos, podcasts, and interactive educational tools related to history.

Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Description: The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, it is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.