Introduction
to Data Compression Science
Library 228
Fall
2007 jgelfand@uci.edu
949-824-4971
In
order to trace the literature for the growing field of data compression, you
will have to consult many information sources.
This handout will lead you to the major finding aids for journal
articles, books, conference proceedings, technical reports and preprint
literature.
Familiarity with and intensive use of MELVYL/CDL
will allow you increasing electronic access to information. UCI's ANTPAC is now the most current source of
all e-resources. It is recommended that
you bookmark the UCI Libraries Homepage
at www.lib.uci.edu
and then go to E-Resources Locator and you will see a list of choices for
various information products article databases, fulltext
online journals (by title, subject, publisher) and other reference
sources. WORLD CAT is another bibliographic
database containing worldwide library holdings of books and journal titles.
ABSTRACTING & INDEXING
TOOLS (Article Databases) Access
to fulltext content continues to grow. Not all the links to fulltext
are always in place, but the UC eLinks are
increasingly active and accurate.
Consult with ANTPAC by source of information for citations where eLinks are not included to fulltext. The major relevant finding tools and
publications from the professional societies available at UCI are:
1. INSPEC- indexes IEEE and IEEE Computer
Science press publications with increased access to fulltext
coverage from those sources, especially for journals, transaction series, and
conference proceedings in pdf; also indexes other
materials many conference proceedings.
INSPEC Archive (1898-1968) is
available on another platform.
2. IEEE Xplore
most comprehensive link to IEEE full-text sources, including journal coverage,
book articles and a separate IEEE
conference proceedings database
3. Web of Science frontward &
backward searching for journal articles with access to references and cited
author information. Also contains links
to full-text articles subscribed to by UC from the following publishers: Kluwer, Academic Press, Wiley goes back to 1945 for
sciences and 1956 for social sciences
4. Math Sci Net access to literature related to discrete mathematics
and operations research from the American Mathematical Society
5. ACM Digital Library fulltext access to many of the society publications
6. SIAM fulltext
access to society publications from the Society of Industrial and Applied
Mathematics
7. Dissertation Abstracts Proquest
Digital Dissertations access to the University Microforms (UMI) list of
theses and dissertations complete with abstracts. Can be searched by author, concept in title
or abstract, institution and fulltext is available
for all UC dissertations at no cost from 1996, otherwise must be requested via
ANTPAC ILL and will be provided at no cost to UCI graduate students and
faculty.
8. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series by Springer Verlag
- online access is available from approximately 2000 for this series and is
searchable by paper, and edited volume.
Links from INSPEC also take one directly to paper.
9. SPIE - fulltext
proceedings and journals from the International Society for Optical
Engineering, including the Journal of
Electronic Imaging.
ANALYTICAL TOOLS -
1. ISI Journal Citation Reports -
corresponding to titles covered in Science Citation Index. Provides Impact
Factors for output from 1999-2005.
Attributes
of using MELVYL/CDL & most indexing tools:
1. e-mail access
2. save function
3. MELVYL REQUEST functionality
for InterLibrary Loan borrowing (
4. link to fulltext
content via UC eLinks
Attributes
of using ANTPAC:
1. e-Mail access
2. customization of "MY
ANTPAC" for tracking all transactions
3. status of availability of
item
4. Table of Contents provided
for many recent books
Relevant Online Journal
Initiatives
realize the merger mania in publishing and how fluid publishing currently is
relationships between societies and publishers changes often. Currently UC has access from 1996 forward to
most of the journals published by the following commercial publishers:
1. Elsevier & Academic
Press now all part of Science Direct (also includes Morgan Kaufman)
2. Kluwer & Springer Verlag Link
(includes Plenum)
3. Wiley Interscience
- recently acquired by Blackwells
Conference Proceedings - INSPEC and the
professional societies are the likely sources.
For print copies, consulting ANTPAC should be the first step. For eAccess ANTPAC
will note by name of conference or by editor of the proceedings volume. The major conference proceedings are issued
by IEEE, ACM and often published commercially.
One of the
major conferences in this subject area is the Data Compression Conference (DCC) UCI has through 2007 available
electronically via IEEE Xplore (search by restricting
to conference proceedings). Each year of
print proceedings is indexed separately and does circulate, unlike bound
journal volumes. Located
in the SL Bar. This conference,
sponsored by IEEE is indexed in INSPEC and full-text of all conferences is
available search by Conference and enter Data Compression Conference and
you will see pdfs for all papers. Also available via IEEE Xplore
by DCC 2006 and on ANTPAC under Data Compression Conference as a keyword (the
print 2006 and 2007 are still on order).
Other web-based sources
1. INTERNET SOURCES - Variety of other search engines often the retrieval is of access
to commercial products or discoveries, academic papers and independent
materials, information and links to academic research centers and some
technical papers and technical report literature from around the globe large
range of information. Many references
and links are noted on the course syllabus.
Use a search engine such as GOOGLE to identify resources and pay
attention to the domain of the source for evaluative purposes. Google
Scholar will provide links to more academic content matches in fulltext via access from UCI IP
addresses.
2. SUBJECT PAGES - consult the ICS pages at http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subpage.php?subject=computing