These facilities can only be used by City College staff and students who have a valid username and password provided by the Computing Centre. Advanced booking is required in order to use the Digital Libraries.

Digital Libraries

How to Access the Digital Libraries

ACM Digital Library ^[Fulltext]
Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985 are available in the ACM Digital Library. While full-text is available for most articles, full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991. The ACM Digital Library includes: 

§ Full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings 
§ TOCs from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward 
§ TOCs from articles published in over 700 volumes of conference proceedings since 1985. 

Search options

Basic Search: On the Digital Library main page, simply type a word or phrase into the text box.

Browse the Digital Library by:

§ Journals 
§ Magazines 
§ Transactions 
§ Proceedings 
§ Newsletters 
§ Publications by Affiliated Organizations 
§ Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Advanced Search: Login required 

Balance Sheets of Greek Companies ^[Reference]
An online service of ICAP that offers immediate access to a database which contains:

§ Balance  Sheets & Financial Statements of all S.A. and Ltd Companies
§ Consolidated Balance Sheets & Financial Statements of  Financial Syndicates

The data cover the period between 1997 to recent years and are presented scanned, as they appear in the four most important newspapers of the daily Greek financial press: Imerisia, Naftemporiki, Kerdos, and Express.

Note: The data of “Balance Sheets of Greek Companies” is available in Greek only.

CITESeer (ResearchIndex)
The Scientific Literature Digital Library, is a freely available fulltext database of computer science articles on the Web. CITESeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. ResearchIndex, indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides the following features:

ICAP Financial Directory ^[Reference]
The ICAP annual Financial Directory is the most valid symbol, the rapidest and safest means of access to business information. Inside the ICAP Greek Financial Directory you will find financial and commercial information on more than 20,000 enterprises, which constitute the Greek financial reality, including A.S.E. Companies, Mass Media, Hotels and Tourist Enterprises. As a user, you can access a detailed profile of each company ranging from the official identity to summaries of financial data from the last two balance sheets.

The section “Greece in Figures”, accurately presents a general overview of the national economy via statistical data.

IEEE Digital Library  ^[Fulltext]
The IEEE Digital Library includes access to: 

§ all IEEE periodicals from 1995 to present
§ all IEEE conference papers since 1997 forward 
§ all IEEE standards 

Search functions

Basic Search: guides you through the process of creating a search query. You can enter a single keyword, or create a more advanced query without knowing search syntax by selecting field codes and search operators from pull-down menus. 

Advanced Search: allows you to enter a free-form search query. You can enter a single keyword, a phrase, or a complete search query using search syntax. 

Author Search: allows you to enter a complete or partial name and searches the author field in each citation record for your entry. 

Conference Proceedings Search: allows you to enter title words to retrieve related citations.

PsycARTICLES Search ^[Fulltext]
A definitive source of searchable fulltext articles on current issues in psycholgoy. The PsyARTICLES database covers general and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research om psychology. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable fulltext articles from 40 journals published by the APA and 9 from allied organizations. It contains all journals, articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.

PsycEXTRA ^[Fulltext]
A companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database, supplies clinicians, information professionals, policy-makers, researchers, and consumers with a wide variety of credible information in psychology, behavioral science, and health. Most of the coverage is material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. PsycEXTRA is different from PsycINFO in its coverage, and also in its format, because it includes abstracts and citations plus full text for a major portion of the records. There is no overlap with PsycINFO.

PsycINFO: Psychological Abstracts ^{[Bibliographic]}
Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO covers literature that is relevant to psychology. In addition to "core" psychology topics such as personality or mental health, it contains abstracts on behavioral topics from related disciplines. You can find references about health care, education, business, organizational behavior, consumer behavior, criminal justice, artificial intelligence, and many more. PsycINFO is updated monthly. 

Access 
Digital libraries can be accessed either from Computers Workstations or remotely.. Prior booking, is required, either by approaching the Library Issue Desk or by making a telephone reservation.

Search Results 
You can print, download or save the search results. All documents included in the digital libraries are available in full-text and PDF format. If for any reason only the absract of an article is available, you may use the Interlibrary Loan Services to obtain the fulltext of the material.

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