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Subject gateways, hubs and portals
Electronic publications
- ArXiv. An e-print archive, mirrored in the UK, covering physics, mathematics, computer science, etc produced by Cornell University
- CogPrints. The Cognitive Science ePrint Archive is an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science
- Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
- Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) Published by the BCS, this service includes free access to a range of workshop and conference proceedings
- E-Print Network. A gateway to over 14,880 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also other scientific subject areas. Maintained by the U.S.Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
- eXtropia. A set of free tutorials on web programming etc
- On-line CS Techreports - this is a list of links to sites (mainly academic) which offer online access to the text of technical reports
Electronic reference works
History of computing
- Alan Turing Home Page. Maintained by Andrew Hodges, author of the prime Turing biography
- Artificial Intelligence - History, Philosophy and Practice
- Charles Babbage Institute (CBI). Located at the University of Minnesota, the CBI is dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing through historical research and archival activity. The site includes links to archive collections, organisations and publications related to the history of computing
- Computer Conservation Society. UK group, attached to the British Computer Society. Includes listing of ICL archive held by the Science Museum, London
- Computer History Museum. "The world's largest and most significant history museum". Includes the texts of Computing before Computers. Ed. W.Aspray. Iowa State U. Pr, 1990, and P.Ceruzzi, Reckoners. Greenwood Pr, 1983
- Computer50. A site dedicated to the "Baby", designed and built at the University of Manchester, which first ran a program successfully on June 21 1948
- History of Computing. A collection of materials related to the history of computing, collected and written by J.A.N. Lee
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- National Archive for the History of Computing.. The National Archive based at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Manchester and the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. The site includes related links and brief lecture notes on the history and culture of computing, plus the Archive catalogue
- People and Pioneers. Links to biographical information on computing pioneers
- Turing Digital Archive. This site contains mainly unpublished personal papers and photographs of Alan Turing (1912-1954)
- Virtual Museum of Computing This site includes an eclectic collection of links connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits. It has a useful Pioneers of Computing section
Professional organisations and societies
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