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Quickstart - Game Development

Finding books

PONI
SMU's online library catalog contains over 1.5 million items owned by the SMU Libraries.


OCLC FirstSearch: WorldCat
Consists of 49 million records contributed by 14,000 libraries from around the world. Useful for verifying book citations and seeing which libraries own a particular title.

Finding articles

ABI/INFORM
Contains over 2,500 business publications, including the full-text for Game Developer.

Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
A full-text business database of nearly 7,800 business journals. Includes various gaming industry profiles for different countries.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
A multi-discipline database containing full-text for nearly 4,700 publications and abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 journals, with many dating back to 1975. Subject coverage includes computer sciences and engineering, as well as more general subjects.
InfoTrac OneFile
A multi-discipline database containing full-text for over 6,000 publications and abstracts and indexing for over 10,000 journals. Includes, business and computer science. Includes the consumer magazines Computer Gaming World and Electronic Gaming Monthly.

ACM Digital Library
Full text of most journals and publications published by the ACM. Recommended for computer science research.


Engineering Village 2
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary engineering database. Contains limited full-text, but contains over 8 million records from 5,000 international engineering journals, conferences, and trade publications.


IEEE Xplore
Search complete abstract records for IEEE publications. SMU's full-text access includes IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines published since 1998, although you can search all content back to 1950.


ScienceDirect
Includes some full-text articles and 60 million abstracts in areas including: Computer Science, Economics, Enginering, Materials Science, and Physics.


Wiley Interscience
Access to over 1,000 journals in areas including: Business and Computer Science with some full-text access.
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