Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

The Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences (ICS) is composed of three academic departments and there is a Research Guide to support each department that lists information resources and special services appropriate to that subject discipline and of interest to faculty, graduate students and undergraduates enrolled in ICS classes and engaged in its research programs.  Remember to use all the pull-down menus to find extra resources and information.

Make sure to use the specialized resources for each department.

Increasingly many of our licensed library resources are available via mobile devices - this link will tell you what is available and on what platform.  

The UCI Libraries offers Wepa printing that can be accessed from an app downloaded on your phone.

• Print from the Cloud using Google Drive, Canvas, Office 365, Dropbox, and more.
• Print on the go by downloading the Wepa Print app. Available from the App Store or Google Play.
• Add funds to the app or on the Wepa web site at https://www.wepanow.com/login.
• Costs will be debited at the rate of 10 cents per copy or xerox made; 12 cents per page of printing.

When using Online or Internet Resources, consider Search Engines vs. metasites - evaluate resource - consider domain - .edu, .com, .gov, .org, etc.

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources - or Evaluation Techniques for Internet Resources

1. Authority control - authorship - who, affiliation, where
2. Currency - note the date, the update, does it reflect the right period of time
3. Evaluate the source - establish criteria that is meaningful to covering the topic
4. Citing Internet resources - URL & date of the search
5. Capturing and citing
6. Copying