It indexes journals, reports, society publications, books and conference proceedings and includes summaries of the item's content. Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts 1989 to date This index focuses on literature discussing personal computers, for example, the use of microcomputers in business and education. Articles, news, columns, product announcements and reviews are covered. SCI provides citations to the scholarly journal literature, conference proceedings, books and reports. In addition to the usual dictionary content, this publication provides some very useful information in its appendices.
Entries are cross-referenced, acronyms and abbreviations are included.
Quotations, sprinkled throughout the book, provide interesting breaks in the alphabetical organization. An appendix includes instructions for the correct use of computer terminology, acronyms, abbreviations and more. The dictionary begins with a list that establishes and groups terms within broad subject categories. An alphabetical listing of over 1900 term definitions useful to the personal computer user follows. The resource is illustrated and heavily cross-referenced.