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Friday, April 24, 2009

Computer science portal now OA

New release of computer science portal io-port.net, press release, April 20, 2009. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)

FIZ Karlsruhe now offers its computer science portal io-port.net, which was launched for the first time 3 years ago, free of charge with a new database interface and numerous new search functions. FIZ Karlsruhe produces the database together with its partners Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) e.V., University of Trier, Springer-Verlag GmbH and IEEE Computer Society.

io-port.net is a freely accessible database with more than one million computer science publications. Documents from different sources are offered in a standardized format through one common search interface ...

The database covers the time range from 1931 to the present. This makes it the most comprehensive source of data on the historical development of computer science. The database contains bibliographical meta data, links to electronic full-texts and, for most of the references, article summaries or abstracts written by scientists. ...