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Welcome

Welcome to the subject guide for Computing and Games Design. This guide will help you find books, journals and other resources to use when undertaking research for your assignments.

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The Books tab will guide you through the process of finding books both print and electronic for your subject and the Journals and Databases tab will direct you to resources for finding computing related journal articles and conference papers..

Key computing resources

Library Search
The place to start for books, ebooks, articles and more

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
IEEE Xplore provides access to the collection of electrical engineering, electronics and computer science journals and conferences published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The database also includes all active standards from the IEEE.
IEEE Xplore
In the database IEEE Xplore there are now over 3.8 million articles on computing related topics. There are thousands of early access articles that you can only find by searching IEEE Xplore (not by searching through Google Scholar or Library Search).
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from the journals, magazines, newsletters and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. News, analysis and academic research articles in a variety of topics in computing.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Full text coverage of trade and academic journals covering all business disciplines, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Also includes industry and company profiles and SWOT analyses, country economic data and market research.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is a search engine that covers scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. You can use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, as well as scholarly articles available from across the web.
Be aware that Google scholar will find results from sources that SHU does not subscribe to so you may not automatically be able to get full text online. You can take advantage of the SHU subscriptions by going to Scholar Preferences and adding Sheffield Hallam University when prompted for a library name. This will add a SHU Links link to your Google Scholar searches which will identify what you can get via SHU subscriptions. However, we still advise that you access Google Scholar via Library Gateway as this will give you access to the full range of subscribed resources.
Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary full text database covering business, health and medical, social sciences, education , science and technology, including core titles in the performing and visual arts, history, religion, philosophy, and language and literature. It includes both scholarly journals as well as market research and industry reports, working papers and full-text dissertations.

Other useful subject guides

This computing subject guide covers the core resources you need for day-to-day study and research.

You may sometimes find other subject guides useful for specialised topics. You can find a full list of other guides on the Library Gateway, but some that may be particularly useful are:

Business, Management and Marketing
Useful if you're looking at business systems, doing a management module or want to find company or market information
Education
Can be helpful if you want to find resources about educational technology or e-learning systems
Engineering
Resources on electronics and electrical engineering may be particularly relevant
Design
Sport