IRM resources

Computer science bibliographies/digital libraries

• Electronic Databases -- Wits Library
• Computer Science Bibliography Collection
• Computer Abstracts International Database
• ACM Computing Research Repository
• ACM Digital Library
• ACM Portal to Computing Literature
• IEEE Xplore
• IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
• CiteSeer
• Google Scholar

Computer science research resources

• Advice on Research and Writing
• Justin Zobel: Writing for Computer Science
• Computer Science Student Support Site: Research Resources
• VassarStats: Statistical Computation Web Site
• How to Read a Scientific Research Paper
• How to read a research paper
• Research Papers: Reading Sources Critically
• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
• Wits Writing Centre

Plagiarism

• The Writing Place Tips for Writers: Avoiding Plagiarism
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab: Avoiding Plagiarism
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
• Guidance Notes on Plagiarism

Other computer science resources

• Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems
• Virtual Library: Computer Science
• Virtual Computer Library
• The WWW Virtual Library: Formal Methods
• The WWW Virtual Library: Concurrent Systems
• The WWW Virtual Library: Safety-Critical Systems

Search engines

• All The Web
• Google
• AltaVista

Further study

• George Konidaris' guide for South African students planning on going overseas to do a postgraduate degree in Computer Science

IRM documents

• Departmentally approved citation and reference style
  • Sample reference list (PostScript)
  • LaTeX file for sample reference list
  • BibTeX file for sample reference list
• Declaration
  • Declaration form
• Document templates for IRM
  • Template for Phase 1
  • Template for Phase 2
  • Referee's guidelines for research proposal for Phase 3 (PostScript)
  • LaTeX file for referee's guidelines for research proposal for Phase 3
  • Referee's guidelines for research report for Phase 3 (PostScript)
  • LaTeX file for referee's guidelines for research report for Phase 3
  • Example annotated bibliography for Phase 4 (PostScript)
  • Example annotated bibliography for Phase 4 (LaTeX file)
  • Example annotated bibliography for Phase 4 (BibTeX file)
  • Template for Phase 6 (LaTeX file)
• LaTeX and BibTeX style files
  • witsa4.sty natbib.sty natbib-add.tex named-wits.bst fixseminar.sty

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Last updated: 07/03/2007