The quest for knowledge starts by looking at the information out there. Find several locations below that may be of use when looking for scientific publications about software engineering and cloud computing. A good keyword or two will yield the best results, of course.

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Xplore
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library
• Springer publication search, SpringerLink
• Elsevier research engine, Scirus
• Scopus abstract and citation database
• Nelli-portal (meta search, computer science)

Many research portals require that the articles are accessed from a computer in the university network. Either download the articles at the university or use a remote desktop connection to the Windows Server. The connection to the Windows Server can be taken e.g. from a home computer, in Windows you can launch the Remote Desktop application with the winserver.cs.helsinki.fi address and use the username style TKTL/username (note the TKTL/ prefix to the username in this case) to connect to the server.