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VPN and WiFi Tips

Off-campus and on-campus/wifi access to most of the databases, ebooks, and journals licensed by the Library is restricted to UC San Diego students, faculty and staff.
VPN (Virtual Private Network): CISCO Anyconnect VPN must be set to 2-Step Secured allthruucsd.
If you have trouble accessing resources, sign out of the VPN. Login again, check that setting, and try your resource again. More details
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Key resources

O'Reilly for Higher Education
Includes more than 45K books from O'Reilly and 200+ publishers, covering programming languages, cloud computing, software architecture, security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and other IT topics, as well as business, data science and management, mathematics, science and engineering, and professional development/soft skills. OHE also has more than 10,000 videos and audiobooks, plus courses and curated playlists prepared by experts in their fields, and you can create your own shareable playlists.
- O'Reilly for Higher Education does not use VPN. Select UC San Diego from the list of institutions, and then login using Single Sign On (access limited to UC San Diego faculty, students, and staff.
ACM Digital Library & Guide to Computing Literature
The ACM Digital Library includes bibliographic information, abstracts, and full text of works published by the Association for Computing Machinery, 1947 to present. The Guide to the Computing Literature indexes journal articles and conference proceedings from additional societies and commercial publishers, including IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, SIAM, Usenix, etc., making this database the first choice for computer research. Provides bibliometrics on Authors and Institutions.
Inspec
Indexes 22+ million journal articles and conference papers in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, and computer science. Also good for related disciplines like geophysics, astronomy, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, ocean engineering, and acoustics. Indexes IEEE conference papers and standards. ****You can now cross search with Compendex for a more comprehensive search of the engineering literature; duplicate results can be removed.
IEEE Xplore
Full-text access to IEEE & IEE/IET transactions, journals, magazines & conference proceedings, IEEE standards, and IEEE e-books (later titles on Wiley). Browse by journal title, conference name, and author. By default, IEEE searches on the metadata. Use the advanced search to expand to full-text searching.
Compendex
Indexes 30+ million journal and trade magazine articles, conference papers, standards, books, and other materials in all engineering disciplines. Core database for mechanical, aerospace, civil, structural, chemical, and environmental engineering, as well as materials science and nanotechnology. ****You can now cross search with Inspec for a more comprehensive search of the engineering literature; duplicate references can be removed.

Browzine how-to guide for UCSD
BrowZine is a current awareness service (accessible via laptop, desktop, and mobile devices) that lets you browse, read, and monitor your favorite scholarly journals.
All Physical Science & Engineering e-book collections at UCSD

Finding Journals

Journal search in UCSD's UC Library Search: https://search-library.ucsd.edu/discovery/jsearch?vid=01UCS_SDI:UCSD
Browzine - browse journals in Computational Engineering and Science
Browzine - browse journals in Computer Science
Browzine - browse journals in Electrical and Computer Engineering