InfoGuides: Digital Forensics (DFOR): Find other Technical Information

Finding Standards

Electrical and Telecommunication Standards are listed on this webpage. Use the following library guide to find additional technical standards.

Finding Standards
by Tammy Stitz Last Updated Mar 20, 2024 123 views this year

IEEE Standards
Browse or search for standards issued by the IEEE, alone or in partnership with other standards organizations.
ITU-R Recommendations for Radiocommunication -- OPEN ACESS
Free access to all the ITU Recommendations and Reports (Radiocommunication)

Data

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) – Analyze
"NCBI provides a wide variety of data analysis tools that allow users to manipulate, align, visualize and evaluate biological data." from website
This webpage provides hyperlinks to all of their tools.

Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables are available for use in the Sage Data repository. Sage Data offers capabilities to compare & contrast multiple data series, perform statistical calculations on the data, and customize output views.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Integrates more than 80,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 22,500 international sources. Includes statistics and studies gathered from market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, government sources and international organizations. Create graphs, reports and infographics. Data is easily exportable for analysis. Statista reports now allow you to create your own interactive industry comparisons with Tableau Workbook. Find the free tool here or via https://www.tableau.com/trial/statista-benchmark-report-uk. Tutorial for the Statista database.

Conference Papers

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Citations and full-text articles in the area of computing and information technologies from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the ACM.
Tutorial for the ACM Digital Library database.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to all journals, transactions and conference proceedings published by IEEE and IET. Accesses more than 1,000 books in the IEEE-Wiley eBook Library and IEEE-MIT eBook Library-Computing and Engineering Collection.
View a tutorial on this database here.
PapersFirst This link opens in a new window
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Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library Document Supply Centre.
Proceedings This link opens in a new window
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Citations and the table of contents for every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library.
Web of Science: Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Can select to search or filter on science conference proceedings only.

Technical Reports

Universities

arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Open access to 1,000,000+ e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Tutorial for the arXiv.org database.

Mason Department of Computer Science Technical Reports
"This collection contains the combined technical reports of the Department of Computer Science and the former Department of Information and Software Engineering. (1992-present)"
SCS Technical Reports, Carnegie Mellon University
Provides access to research related to computer science, robotics, Human-computer interaction, machine learning, software and more.

Industry

IBM Technical Research
Find citations and full text technical reports covering research conducted by IBM researchers.
Microsoft Research
This portal provides access to information about Microsoft research. Use the Researcher Tools link to access reports or go to this page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/tools/
TechRepublic Resource Library
Web's largest library of free technical IT white papers, webcasts, and case studies. IT categories include Data Management, IT Management, Networking, Security, Communications, Enterprise Applications, Storage, etc.

US Government

NTRL: National Technical Reports Library This link opens in a new window
Provides documents from the National Technical Information Service's comprehensive collection of federally-funded science- and technology-related technical reports.
NASA Technical Reports Server This link opens in a new window
Access aerospace-related citations, full-text documents, images and videos. Includes a broad array of resources, such as conference papers, journal articles, photos, graphs, meeting papers, movies, patents, research reports, and technical videos. View a tutorial on this database here.

DOE Office of Science & Technical Information
Search for energy related research in this tool from the US Department of Energy.
Center for Transportation Research (UT-Austin)
Provides access to transportation research including economics, multimodal systems, traffic congestion relief, policy, etc.

Theses & Dissertations

The resources in this section can be used to locate theses and dissertations. Some will be free and others might need to be ordered using Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

ETD @ Mason (Electronic Theses and Dissertations)
Contains dissertations, theses and some projects at George Mason University.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. Contains new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Tutorial for the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text database.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Search for open access (freely available) theses and dissertations archived in college and university digital archives.
British Library EThOS Beta (Electronic Theses Online Service)
Contains many freely available dissertations from the United Kingdom. Provided by the British Library.
Dart-Europe E-theses Portal
Contains many open access theses and dissertations from European Countries.

InterLibrary Loan – ILLiad login
If we don't have an electronic article, a book, a thesis, etc., try interlibrary loan. The software is called ILLiad. New users must setup an account.

Government Websites

Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)
"pursues three overarching goals: to deter and disrupt computer and intellectual property crime by bringing and supporting key investigations and prosecutions, to guide the proper collection of electronic evidence by investigators and prosecutors, and to provide technical and legal advice and assistance to agents and prosecutors in the U.S. and around the world." from website
FBI: Cyber Crime
The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating cyber attacks by criminals, overseas adversaries, and terrorists. The threat is incredibly serious—and growing. Cyber intrusions are becoming more commonplace, more dangerous, and more sophisticated.
Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3)
"provides digital and multimedia (D/MM) forensics, specialized cyber training, technical solutions development, and cyber analytics for the following DoD mission areas: cybersecurity (CS) and critical infrastructure protection (CIP); law enforcement and counterintelligence (LE/CI); document and media exploitation (DOMEX), counterterrorism (CT) and safety inquiries." from website
Grants.gov
Search for grant and funding opportunities from U.S. federal agencies

Finding Patents

Use the following library guide to find patents.

Finding Patents
by Tammy Stitz Last Updated Aug 16, 2023 145 views this year