Supplemental Textbooks (with links to Amazon)

(These may be useful for further depth.)

• Ramakrishnan and Gehrke. Database Management Systems, 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill.
• Garcia-Molina, Ullman, and Widom. Database Systems: The Complete Book. Prentice-Hall.
• Elmasri and Navathe. Fundamentals of Database Systems, 4th ed. Addison Wesley.
• Silberschatz, Korth, and Sudarshan. Database System Concepts, 4th ed. McGraw Hill.
• Abiteboul, Hull, and Vianu. Foundations of Databases. Addison Wesley.
• Abiteboul, Suciu, and Buneman. Data on the Web. Morgan Kaufman.

Database Communities

• ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group in the Management of Data): a lot of database resources form here.
• VLDB

Related Courses at UIUC

• CS411: Design of Database Management Systems
• LIS329: Information Storage and Retrieval Systems
• LIS429: Implementation of Information Storage and Retrieval Systems
• LIS380LEA: Information Organization and Access

Related Projects

• System R 25th Reunion
• Stanford Digital Libraries Project
• Stanford Lore Project
• UIUC Digital Libraries Project

Online Digital Libraries & Bibliography Servers

• UIUC Grainger Library (You can access ACM and IEEE papers without ACM or IEEE account by clicking "ACM Full Text" or "IEEE Full Text")
• DBLP Bibliography Server
• ACM Digital Library  -- Note: Free access from UIUC domain.(If you are not using a machine in the uiuc domain, click here)
• ResearchIndex

General Advice on Research

• What is Research in Computer Science
• Basic Research Skills in Computer Science
• Advice on Research and Writing (for computer scientists)