Scientific Work
Note: Please also have a look at the guidelines for seminars and student theses in the Software Engineering Group.
Literature search
- ACM Digital Library and Guide to Computing Literature (Fulltext, BiBTeX)
- DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (BiBTeX)
- Citeseer (BiBTeX (must be used with great care), Fulltext, Citation)
- Google Scholar (Fulltext)
- Collection of computer science bibliographies (CCSB) (BiBTeX)
- DOI lookup
- Web of Science (Citation) (only from licensed IP addresses)
- Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek
- Advice for Finishing that Damn Ph.D. (PDF) by Daniel M. Berry
- Advice on Research and Writing
- Advice Collection by Tao Xie and Yuan Xie, North Carolina State University
- List of Software Engineering Conferences (includes acceptance rates)
- LaTeX help web pages, University of Florida (LaTeX and BiBTeX, HTML)
- The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2ε (LaTeX, PDF)
- How to cite URLs in BiBTeX
- Writing Technical Articles by Henning Schulzrinne, University of Columbia
- James G. Paradis, Vanessa Zimmerman: “The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication” – 2. edition. – Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002. ISBN 0-262-66127-6. BIS nat 397 CO 3896,2. (in particular chapters 1, 3-6, 8-9, presentations: particularly ch. 15)
- Fred D. White: “Communicating Technology: Dynamic Processes and Models for Writers” – Pearson Higher Education, 1996. ISBN 0-06-500508-2. (particularly chapters 6-7, focus on English language: chapters 8-9)
- Michael Swan: “Practical English usage”. – 2. edition. – Oxford [u.a.] : Univ. Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-431198-8 (hb) 0-19-431197-X (pb). BIS: S ang 201 LR 4083,2,1995,2 and N ang 201 BL 4116,2,1995,2 (hints on English language use, especially for non-native speakers)
- Giving a Talk by Willem Mallon
- How to give a good research talk by Simon L. Peyton, Jones John Hughes, and John Launchbury
- Reviewing a Manuscript for Publication by Allen S. Lee
- Alan Jay Smith, “The task of the referee,” IEEE Computer, April 1990, pp. 65-71, DOI 10.1109/2.55470 (PDF)