The most frequently asked question in my personal mail is for the sources and resources I regularly consult. This is the extended answer. Thank you for your interest.
Last updated 2009-03-30. Please send comments and suggestions to erik@naggum.no .
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- Associations
- Digital Libraries
- Reference Resources
- Periodicals
- Newspapers
Associations
I am a member and enthusiastic supporter of the following associations:
- AAAI aaai.org
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Member
- AAAS aaas.org
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
Professional member
- ACM acm.org
- Association for Computing Machinery
Professional member
- ACM SIGACT sigact.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
Professional member
- ACM SIGAda sigada.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Ada (the Programming Language)
Professional member
- ACM SIGART sigart.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
Professional member
- ACM SIGCAS sigcas.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society
Professional member
- ACM SIGCHI sigchi.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
Professional member
- ACM SIGCOMM sigcomm.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Communications
Professional member
- ACM SIGCSE sigcse.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education
Professional member
- ACM SIGDOC sigdoc.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication
Professional member
- ACM SIGIR sigir.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
Professional member
- ACM SIGMOD sigmod.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (Databases)
Professional member
- ACM SIGOPS sigops.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems
Professional member
- ACM SIGPLAN sigplan.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
Professional member
- ACM SIGSAC sigsac.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control
Professional member
- ACM SIGSOFT sigsoft.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
Professional member
- ACM SIGWEB sigweb.org
- ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web
Professional member
- AMS ams.org
- American Mathematical Society
Regular member
- APS psqonline.org
- Academy of Political Science
Contributing member
- ASA amstat.org
- American Statistical Association
Full member
- ASL aslonline.org
- Association for Symbolic Logic
Individual member
- IEEE ieee.org
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member
- IEEE CIS ieee-cis.org
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Member
- IEEE COM comsoc.org
- IEEE Communications Society
Member
- IEEE CS computer.org
- IEEE Computer Society
Professional member
- IEEE CSS ieeecss.org
- IEEE Control Systems Society
Professional member
- IEEE ES http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/
- IEEE Education Society
Member
- IEEE IT itsoc.org
- IEEE Information Theory Society
Member
- IEEE PCS ieeepcs.org
- IEEE Professional Communication Society
Member
- IEEE SMC ieeesmc.org
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Member
- IEEE SPS signalprocessingsociety.org
- IEEE Signal Processing Society
Member
- IEEE SSIT ieeessit.org
- IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
Member
- IMS imstat.org
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Regular member
- MAA maa.org
- Mathematical Association of America
Regular member
- NYAS nyas.org
- New York Academy of Sciences
Patron member
- PSA philsci.org
- Philosophy of Science Association
Member
- SIAM siam.org
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Member
- SIAG CE siam.org
- SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering
Member
- SIAG DM siam.org
- SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics
Member
- USENIX usenix.org
- The Advanced Computing Systems Association
Member
- SAGE sage.org
- The USENIX Special Interest Group for Sysadmins
Member
- EAPLS eapls.org
- European Association for Programming Languages and Systems
Member
- EATCS eatcs.org
- European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
Member
- EMS emis.de
- European Mathematical Society
Individual member
- NBF norskbibliotekforening.no
- Norsk Bibliotekforening
- NFF biblioteknett.no/nff
- Norsk Fagbibliotekforening
- NMF matematikkforeningen.no
- Norsk Matematisk Forening
- NUUG nuug.no
- Norwegian Unix Users Group
Member
Digital Libraries
These digital libraries provide a tremendous volume of high-quality material.
- ACM Digital Library portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
- Features all ACM publications.
- ACM Guide to Computing Literature portal.acm.org/guide.cfm
- Vast, comprehensive bibliography of computing literature.
- ACM Computing Reviews reviews.com
- Academic reviews of computing literature.
- Bartleby bartleby.com
- Literature, reference and verse. Free.
- DOAJ doaj.org
- Directory of Open Access Journals. Free.
- IEEE Member Digital Library ieeexplore.ieee.org
- Features all IEEE publications.
- IEEE Computer Society Digital Library computer.org/portal/site/csdl/
- Features all IEEE CS publications.
- IEEE Communications Society Digital Library dl.comsoc.org
- Features all IEEE ComSoc publications.
- IEEE Information Theory Digital Library
- Features all IEEE IT publications (in IEEE Xplore).
- Findarticles findarticles.com
- 5'000'000 articles from a huge inventory of periodicals
- HighBeam Research highbeam.com
- Contains more than 34'000'000 documents from 3'000 sources
- JSTOR jstor.org
- Journal Storage -- The Scholarly Journal Archive
- KeepMedia keepmedia.com
- Archives articles from these publications and these columns .
- MIT Cognet cognet.mit.edu
- The Brain Sciences Connection.
- NAP nap.edu
- National Academies Press. Free.
- OLL oll.libertyfund.org
- Online Library of Liberty. Free.
- Project Euclid projecteuclid.org
- Serial literature in mathematics and statistics.
- Questia questia.com
- Online Library of Books and Journals, with research tools.
- Springer Reading Room springeronline.com/readingroom
- Computer science library.
Reference Resources
I regularly consult these reference resources. (Last updated 2007-01-11)
- Access Science accessscience.com
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online
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- Bartleby bartleby.com
- Numerous reference works.
- Caplex caplex.no
- Norwegian encyclopedia.
- CiteULike citeulike.org
- Organize Your Academic Papers.
- Connotea connotea.org
- Reference Management Service for Scientists
- Current Index to Statistics statindex.org
- ASA/IMS.
- Del.icio.us del.icio.us
- Social Bookmarks
- Encyclopedia Britannica britannica.com
- Premier American encyclopedia.
- EOLSS eolss.net
- UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu
- American.
- Kunnskapsforlagets språk- og ordboktjeneste ordnett.no
- Norwegian dictionary service.
- Library of Congress loc.gov
- Premier American library holdings.
- Lovdata lovdata.no
- Norwegian legal database.
- Merriam-Webster Unabridged unabridged.merriam-webster.com
- Premier American dictionaries.
- Norges Bank norges-bank.no
- Norwegian Central Bank.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu
- American.
- Store Norske Leksikon snl.no
- Premier Norwegian encyclopedia.
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary Online tabers.com
- Premier American medical dictionary.
Periodicals
I read these serial publications.
- Academy eBriefings
- American science irregular online. NYAS.
- Agora
- Norwegian philosophical quarterly. Journal for Metafysisk Spekulasjon.
- American Mathematical Monthly
- MAA.
- American Scientist amsci.org
- Bimonthly.
- The American Statistician amstat.org/publications/tas/
- ASA.
- Amstat News
- ASA.
- Annals of Applied Probability imstat.org/aap/
- American statistics quarterly. IMS.
- Annals of Improbable Research improbable.com
- American bimonthly. Priceless, highly intelligent science humor.
- Annals of Probability imstat.org/aop/
- American statistics quarterly. IMS.
- Annals of Statistics imstat.org/aos/
- American statistics quarterly. IMS.
- Annals of the New York Academy of Science
- American irregular. NYAS.
- Apollon apollon.uio.no
- Norwegian quarterly. Research news from the University of Oslo.
- The Atlantic theatlantic.com
- American political monthly.
- British Medical Journal bmj.bmjjournals.com
- Weekly.
- Bulletin of the AMS ams.org/bull
- American mathematical quarterly. AMS.
- Cancer Cell cancercell.org
- American biology.
- Capitalism Magazine capmag.com
- American irregular online.
- Cell cell.com
- American biology.
- Cell Metabolism cellmetabolism.com
- American biology.
- Chemistry & Biology chembiol.com
- American biology.
- City Journal city-journal.org
- American quarterly.
- Cognitive Science Online cogsci-online.ucsd.edu
- American irregular.
- Cogprints cogprints.org
- Cognitive Sciences ePrint Archive.
- College Mathematics Journal
- American quarterly. MAA.
- Commentary Magazine commentarymagazine.com
- American political monthly.
- Common Dreams News Center commondreams.org
- American political online.
- Communications of the ACM (CACM)
- American computer monthly. ACM.
- Computer
- American monthly. IEEE CS.
- Current Biology current-biology.com
- American biology.
- Daily Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
- British newspaper.
- Developmental Cell developmentalcell.com
- American biology.
- Discover discover.com
- American science and technology monthly.
- Dissident Voice dissidentvoice.org
- American political online.
- Dr. Dobb's Journal ddj.com
- American computer monthly.
- The Economist economist.com
- British weekly.
- Edge edge.org
- American irregular online.
- Electronic Communications in Probability math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/
- American statistics online. IMS.
- Electronic Journal of Probability math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/
- American statistics online. IMS.
- EurekAlert! eurekalert.org
- American science news online daily. AAAS.
- Flux flux.no
- Norwegian philosophical quarterly.
- FOCUS
- American mathematical monthly. MAA.
- Foreign Affairs foreignaffairs.org
- American bimonthly political, legal.
- Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com
- American quarterly political.
- Forskning.no forskning.no
- Norwegian science online daily.
- Front Page Magazine frontpagemag.com
- American irregular political online.
- Harper's Magazine harpers.org
- American political monthly.
- Human Events humaneventsonline.com
- American weekly newspaper.
- Immunity immunity.com
- American biology.
- IMS Bulletin imstat.org/bulletin/
- American statistics monthly. IMS.
- The Independent Review independent.org/publications/tir/
- American political quarterly.
- Journal of the American Medical Association jama.ama-assn.org
- Weekly.
- Journal of the American Statistical Association amstat.org/publications/jasa/
- American statistics quarterly. ASA.
- Journal of Business and Economic Statistics amstat.org/publications/jbes/
- American statistics quarterly. ASA.
- Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics amstat.org/publications/jcgs/
- American statistics quarterly. ASA.
- Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications
- American quarterly. MAA.
- Journal of Statistics Education amstat.org/publications/jse/
- American statistics quarterly. ASA.
- Journal of Statistical Software jstatsoft.org
- American irregular online.
- The Lancet thelancet.com
- British medical weekly.
- Lecture Notes -- Monograph Series imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm
- American statistics irregular. IMS.
- Math Horizons
- American quarterly. MAA.
- Mathematics Magazine
- American quarterly. MAA.
- MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com
- American monthly.
- Molecular Cell molecule.org
- American biology.
- The National Interest nationalinterest.org
- American political quarterly.
- National Review nationalreview.com
- American political biweekly.
- Nature nature.com/nature
- British science weekly.
- Nature Medicine nature.com/nm/
- British monthly.
- Neuron neuron.org
- American biology.
- New England Journal of Medicine content.nejm.org
- American weekly.
- The New Republic tnr.com
- American political weekly.
- New Scientist newscientist.com
- British weekly.
- New Statesman newstatesman.com
- British political weekly.
- The New York Review of Books nybooks.com
- American political and literature biweekly.
- News Medical news-medical.net
- British medical extract service.
- Notices of the AMS ams.org/bull
- American mathematical monthly. AMS.
- Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift
- Norwegian political quarterly.
- The Onion theonion.com
- American satirical weekly.
- Political Science Quarterly psqonline.org
- American. APS.
- Probability Surveys i-journals.org/ps/
- American statistics online. IMS.
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pnas.org
- American.
- Prosa nffo.no/prosa
- Norwegian literature bimonthly.
- Prospect Magazine prospect-magazine.co.uk
- British political monthly.
- Queue
- American computer monthly. ACM.
- Reason Magazine reason.com
- American political monthly.
- Salon salon.com
- American political online daily.
- Samtiden samtiden.no
- Norwegian political quarterly.
- Science sciencemag.org
- American weekly. AAAS.
- Science Books & Films (SB&F) sbfonline.com
- American bimonthly. AAAS.
- Science in the News mediaresource.org/sitn
- American daily science extract service.
- Science Now sciencenow.sciencemag.org
- American online daily. AAAS.
- Scientific American sciam.com
- Monthly.
- Scientific American Mind sciammind.com
- Quarterly.
- The Scientist the-scientist.com
- American biweekly.
- The Spectator spectator.co.uk
- British political weekly.
- Spectrum
- American technology monthly. IEEE.
- Statistical Science imstat.org/sts/
- American online. IMS.
- STATS stats.org
- American statistical news service.
- Structure structure.org
- American biology.
- Technometrics amstat.org/publications/tech/
- American statistics quarterly. ASA.
- Teknisk Ukeblad tu.no
- Norwegian technology weekly.
- Tidsskrift for Den norske lægeforening tidsskriftet.no
- Norwegian medical monthly.
- Townhall townhall.com
- American political online daily.
- Vinduet vinduet.no
- Norwegian literature quarterly.
- Wired wired.com
- American technology monthly.
Newspapers
Far less than I used to, I still read these newspapers:
- Aftenposten aftenposten.no
- Norwegian, daily newspaper.
- Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com
- American daily newspaper.
- L'Express lexpress.fr
- French weekly news magazine.
- Le Figaro lefigaro.fr
- French daily newspaper.
- Financial Times ft.com
- British daily newspaper.
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung faz.net
- German daily newspaper.
- The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com
- Canadian daily newspaper.
- Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
- British daily newspaper.
- Klassekampen klassekampen.no
- Norwegian daily newsaper.
- Liberation liberation.fr
- French daily newspaper.
- Los Angeles Times latimes.com
- American daily newspaper.
- The Mercury News mercurynews.com
- American daily newspaper.
- Le Monde lemonde.fr
- French daily newspaper.
- Morgenbladet morgenbladet.no
- Norwegian weekly newspaper.
- The New York Times nytimes.com
- American daily newspaper.
- Newsweek newsweek.com
- American weekly news magazine.
- OpinionJournal opinionjournal.com
- American daily news commentary.
- Le Point lepoint.fr
- French weekly news magazine.
- San Francisco Chronicle sfgate.com
- American daily newspaper.
- Der Spiegel spiegel.de
- German weekly news magazine.
- Stern stern.de
- German weekly news magazine.
- Time Magazine time.com
- American weekly news magazine.
- Times (London) timesonline.co.uk
- British daily newspaper.
- U.S. News and World Report usnews.com
- American weekly news magazine.
- The Wall Street Journal online.wsj.com
- American daily newspaper.
- Washington Post washingtonpost.com
- American daily newspaper.
- Die Welt welt.de
- German daily newspaper.
- Die Zeit zeit.de
- German weekly newspaper.
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