Getting Started with CSDL & other Librarian Resources

CSDL is the best research tool for all of today’s hottest computing topics and features an unparalleled archive of invaluable research. With more than 850,000 top-quality articles and papers, the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library is the premier collection of computing periodicals and conference publications.

Researchers have come to depend on the CSDL for:

• Insights from world-renowned experts;
• Up-to-date technology and methodology analysis;
• Best practices and recommendations from industry;
• Mobile-friendly user interface;
• and immediate access to new content.

12 Magazines | 21 Journals | +9k Conference Proceedings | New Video Library

Consult with your sales representative or email us at csdl@computer.org to ensure you have access to the full library or add additional packages to your subscription.

This page contains information that will assist you in receiving On and Off-Campus access.

We understand every institution has different needs. To accommodate, we offer various options to set up and incorporate our library with your other resources.

Proxy Server | RSS Feeds | Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) | Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART)

Please send us your logo to upload (maximum file size 100MB) so you can ensure your patrons know that the CSDL is provided by the Library! To add your logo, please send a JPG or PNG file to adraquez@computer.org.

Configure your institution’s proxy server settings to easily access Computer Society Digital Library content.

Proxy servers should include the following domains to ensure proper access for users.

• https://www.computer.org
• https://csdl.computer.org
• https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org
• https://search.computer.org
• https://opac.ieeecomputersociety.org
• https://publications.computer.org
• https://csdl-search-api.computer.org

CSDL can also be set up with your Proxy Server (EZproxy).

1. 1. Provide us with your IP addresses/ranges of all on-campus or direct locations.

Note: Institutions using both CSDL and Xplore, need the CSDL stanza placed before the Xplore stanza.

1. Follow this link for instructions to configure your EZproxy server before continuing.
2. Your EZproxy server must have an SSL certificate installed. Follow this link for instructions on how to accomplish this for EZproxy.

A Hosted EZproxy “Include File” is available for this resource. Hosted EZproxy customers will receive automatic updates with OCLC’s latest version of this stanza.

Note: Hosted EZproxy customers in the Americas using self-service may reference the “Include File” by adding the following line to config.txt:

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IEEE Computer Society offers RSS feeds to automatically deliver new abstracts, magazine and journal issues, and recently posted proceedings, right to your mobile or desktop.

Click on the links below to see the XML code for that feed. To set up, copy the XML URL to any RSS reader, or to a browser that supports RSS feeds. You can search for an RSS reader of your choice from your favorite Web search engine.

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The IEEE Computer Society provides metadata for building URLs to specific journals and conference proceedings. This allows users of the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) to link directly into a publication’s page within the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL).

How to Use OPAC Linking

To create links from an OPAC record to the publication’s title or issue level in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL), download the appropriate file from the Publication Reference File list below into your system.

How to Build a URL

The following information provides instructions for building URLs from the metadata in the CSV and XML documents.

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Publication Reference Files

These files are generated dynamically and, upon download, contain the most up-to-date listing of CSDL publications.

• Complete list of Conference Proceedings in CSV format
• Complete list of Conference Proceedings in JSON format
• Complete list of Conference Proceedings in XLSX format
• Complete list of Journal/Magazine Publications in CSV format
• Complete list of Journal/Magazine Publications in JSON format
• Complete list of Journal/Magazine Publications in XLSX format

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The Knowledge Base and Related Tools (KBART) is a joint initiative that has been exploring data problems within the OpenURL supply chain.

Commissioned by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and UKSG, the KBART Working Group has established guidelines for the timely exchange of metadata between content providers and knowledge base developers. Their work is to improve the supply of data to link resolvers and knowledge bases, in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of OpenURL linking.

This is to be achieved by providing best practice guidelines, educational materials and events, and a web hub to act as a central resource for knowledge base information.

For more information, please visit the UKSG/KBART website.

How to Use KBART Metadata

The following fields (KBART 5.3.2) are included in both the Journal and Proceedings list:

Publication Reference Files

These files are generated dynamically and, upon download, contain the most up-to-date listing of CSDL publications.

• Complete list of Conference Proceedings in TXT (tab delimited) format
• Complete list of Journal/Magazine Publications in TXT (tab delimited) format

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The CSDL Basic Search can be found on the CSDL homepage or in the navigation of all other pages. It includes a dropdown list on the left that lets you focus your search to query against Author, Affiliation, Conference, or DOI. The search engine automatically looks for plurals, different verb tenses, and British and American spelling variations.

• The CSDL search box supports the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT.
  (Note that they must be in all capital letters, or they’ll be ignored.)
• By default, the search engine will automatically OR your terms together and query against the metadata for all articles, including fields such as Article Title, Abstract, Index Terms, and Author Names.
• For a string of terms, such as wind energy conversion, the results will include papers that match all three words – although they won’t necessarily be in a phrase or even in the same field.
• To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around your terms. For example, “wind energy conversion” returns results for that exact phrase in that order without stemming or alternate endings, such as plurals.
• Adding “NOT” to your search string will exclude results with the specified term in the metadata — for example, “NOT induction.”

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Citation tools (also called bibliographic management tools or citation managers) enable you to:

• • Build and store personalized collections of references
  • organize and manage these citations within folders
  • Create bibliographies
  • Automatically format and insert citations in papers you’re writing

Within the CSDL, citations may be generated and downloaded in EndNote, Plain Text, Bib TeX and RIS.

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The Advanced Search lets you complete detailed queries against specific fields. You can access it by clicking the “Advanced search” link in the upper right of the search results page to switch from basic to advanced search.

To refine the result set, use the facets on the left-hand side of the page.

• Category: By default, all publications are included, but you can specify conference proceedings, magazines, journals, or letters.
• Year: Search among publications from a single year or a range from 1960 to present.
• Publications: Use the filter and checkboxes to identify specific publications to search within.
• Authors: This facet displays the authors from the current search results. Use the filter and checkboxes to refine the results further.
• Affiliation: Locate articles by authors from specific institutions and companies.
• Preprints: Include papers that have been accepted for publication in magazines, journals, and letters that have not yet gone to print.
• Access: Search the full CSDL, your subscribed content, or open access (freely available).

Results from your search will appear after running the search and will include:

• A checkbox which you may mark to include this particular result in an export of results
• Title of article, author names, periodical or conference it was published in, year, volume, issue, and page numbers
• Abstract and citation links to view the full abstract or citation.

Click on an author name to see all CSDL article results from that same author.

At the top of the right-hand column, you’ll find options for the results list:

• Export: Export metadata for articles in your search results by marking the checkboxes to the left of those you’re interested in and then invoking the Export function. Selected results will be downloaded in a spreadsheet file format (CSV). If no papers are selected, the top 2,000 results will be returned.
• Limit: Choose the number of results to display at a time (10, 25, 50, or 100).
• Show Relevance: Search results are automatically sorted by Relevance. You can also choose Newest First or Oldest First.
• Show All Publications: Select whether to show results from all Computer Society publications, only those to which you’re subscribed, or open access content available to all users.

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Once your subscription is fully set up, it’s time to inform faculty, students, and other staff members about their new resource!

Use these helpful links to introduce them to the IEEE Computer Society:

• About Us
• Launch a Career in Computer Science and Engineering
• IEEE CS for Industry Practitioners

These resources below offer additional information on our publications and Digital Library as a whole.

• Overview of CSDL Periodicals
• CSDL for Students
• Flyer

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Additionally, the IEEE Computer Society provides resources for authors such as “How to Get Published: Author Guidelines for IEEE Computer Society Publications”

View the video below for more information:

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We’ve summarized some key factors to keep in mind while using CSDL. Please read the complete agreement for full details on our Terms and Conditions.

Guests/Members are permitted to do the following:

• View and search the content of CSDL.
• Print individual articles from CSDL.
• Download document files for personal use only.

Guests/Members are not permitted to do the following:

• Allow anyone other than a Licensed User to use or access CSDL.
• Display or otherwise make any information from CSDL available to anyone other than a Licensed User.
• Transmit electronically, via e-mail or any other file transfer protocols, any portion of CSDL.
• Create an archive of any portion of CSDL.
• Use robots or intelligent agents to access, search and/or systematically download any portion of CSDL.
• Use any portion of CSDL for document delivery, fee-for-service use, or bulk reproduction or commercial distribution.
• Alter or modify any portion of CSDL.
• Delete or remove in any form or format, including on a printed article, any copyright information or notice contained in CSDL.
• Reproduce or redistribute any portion of CSDL.
• Combine any portion of CSDL with any other material.

Institutional Subscribers are permitted to do the following:

• View and search the content of CSDL.
• Print individual articles from CSDL.
• Download document files.
• Distribute the printed article to a student, faculty member, employee, or other authorized user included as per your institutional license agreement.

Institutional Subscribers are not permitted to do the following:

• Allow anyone other than a Licensed User to use or access CSDL.
• Create an archive of any portion of CSDL.
• Use robots or intelligent agents to access, search and/or systematically download any portion of CSDL.
• Use any portion of CSDL for document delivery, fee-for-service use, or bulk reproduction or commercial distribution of materials in any form.
• Alter or modify any portion of CSDL.
• Delete or remove in any form or format, including on a printed article, any copyright information or notice contained in CSDL.
• Reproduce or redistribute any portion of CSDL.
• Combine any portion of CSDL with any other material.

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Obtain the latest IEEE Computer Society Digital Library Agreement by contacting csdl@computer.org

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Download the latest IEEE Computer Society Accessibility Conformance Report WCAG Edition.

• https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/marketing/csdl/csdl-vpat2021.pdf

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