Bibliographies and Research Tools for the History of Computing

CBI Software History Bibliography
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/shbib.pdf

The CBI software history bibliography includes references to monographs, journal articles, reports, oral histories, and archival collections relating to the history of software.

History of Computing Bibliography
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tmisa/biblios/hist_computing.html

Tom Misa's thematic bibliography comprises more than 200 items, including journal articles, books, and links to many key online resources in the field.

America: History and Life
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ahal.cgi

Available to U of M students, faculty and staff only. Coverage: 1964 - present. Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide, as well as selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, books, dissertations and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Includes book reviews.

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html

Compiled and maintained by German computer scientist Alf-Christian Achilles, this is a collection of 1200 bibliographies of scientific literature covering most aspects of computer science. The Collection currently contains more than one million references to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports.

DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/welcome.html

Compiled and maintained by computer scientist Michael Ley at the University of Trier (Germany), the Bibliography contains references to more than 163,000 articles and proceedings. Initially it was focused on DataBase systems and Logic Programming (DBLP); now it is gradually being expanded toward other fields of computer science.

Echo Center Search
http://echo.gmu.edu/

Compiled and maintained since 2001 by Echo: Exploring & Collecting History Online -- Science, Technology, and Industry, at the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. Over 5,000 sites, annotations, and site reviews, including organizations, institutions, and museums; conferences and exhibitions; specialized collections and archives; biographical sources (including several resources on women scientists); e-journals and newsletters; bibliographies; and e-mail discussion groups and newsgroups. Incorporates the former WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and Industry.

Econlit
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/econ.cgi

Available to U of M students, faculty and staff only. Coverage: 1969 – present. Indispensable for research in the history of the information processing industry, covering the subjects of economic and business history. Contains bibliographic citations and selected abstracts to the professional and scholarly literature, including journals, books, conference proceedings and dissertations.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/hst.cgi

Available to U of M students, faculty and staff only. Coverage: 1976-present. The database describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.

Past Notable Women of Computing
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women.html

From the Ada Project at Yale.

Webopedia
http://www.webopedia.com/

Online dictionary and search engine of terms and concepts for computer and Internet technology. (Commercial site.)