BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS

2007 Edition
Approved: September 28, 2007
Posted: October 23, 2007
 

COMPUTERS
Use "COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce" for works on the computer skills and technology needed to facilitate electronic commerce and use subjects beginning with "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce" for works discussing the business aspects of electronic commerce.

An asterisk (*) denotes a heading that is new for the 2007 Edition.

Step 2:  Once you have selected your major heading, determine the specific term which describes your book.

COM000000   COMPUTERS / General

COM004000   COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence

COM082000   COMPUTERS / Bioinformatics

                     COMPUTERS / Business Software see Enterprise Applications

COM006000   COMPUTERS / Buyer's Guides

COM007000   COMPUTERS / CAD-CAM

COM008000   COMPUTERS / Calculators

COM009000   COMPUTERS / CD-DVD Technology

COM055000   COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / General

COM055010   COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / A+

COM055020   COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / MCSE

COM061000   COMPUTERS / Client-Server Computing

COM010000   COMPUTERS / Compilers

COM071000   COMPUTERS / Computer Animation

COM011000   COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture

COM059000   COMPUTERS / Computer Engineering

COM012000   COMPUTERS / Computer Graphics / General

COM012040   COMPUTERS / Computer Graphics / Game Programming & Design

COM012050   COMPUTERS / Computer Graphics / Image Processing (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / Digital)

                     COMPUTERS / Computer Industry see BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry

COM013000   COMPUTERS / Computer Literacy

COM014000   COMPUTERS / Computer Science

COM072000   COMPUTERS / Computer Simulation

                     COMPUTERS / Computer Viruses see Security / Viruses

COM016000   COMPUTERS / Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition

COM083000   COMPUTERS / Cryptography

COM017000   COMPUTERS / Cybernetics

COM062000   COMPUTERS / Data Modeling & Design

COM018000   COMPUTERS / Data Processing / General

COM047000   COMPUTERS / Data Processing / Optical Data Processing

COM048000   COMPUTERS / Data Processing / Parallel Processing

COM073000   COMPUTERS / Data Processing / Speech & Audio Processing

COM030000   COMPUTERS / Data Processing / Storage & Retrieval

                     COMPUTERS / Data Recovery see Disaster Recovery

COM020000   COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / General

COM020050   COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / Broadband

COM020010   COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / Electronic Data Interchange

COM020020   COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / Messaging

COM020090   COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / Wireless

COM021000   COMPUTERS / Database Management / General

COM021030   COMPUTERS / Database Management / Data Mining

COM021040   COMPUTERS / Database Management / Data Warehousing

COM084000   COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / General

COM084010   COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Databases

COM022000   COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Desktop Publishing

COM084020   COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Email Clients

COM027000   COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Personal Finance Applications

COM078000   COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Presentation Software

COM054000   COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Spreadsheets

COM058000   COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Word Processing

COM019000   COMPUTERS / Disaster Recovery

COM063000   COMPUTERS / Document Management

COM085000   COMPUTERS / Documentation & Technical Writing

COM023000   COMPUTERS / Educational Software

COM064000   COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce (see also headings under BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce)

COM065000   COMPUTERS / Electronic Publishing

                     COMPUTERS / Email see Data Transmission Systems / Messaging or Desktop Applications / Email Clients

COM005000   COMPUTERS / Enterprise Applications

                     COMPUTERS / Entertainment & Games see GAMES / Video & Electronic

COM025000   COMPUTERS / Expert Systems

                     COMPUTERS / Financial Applications see Desktop Applications / Personal Finance Applications or Enterprise Applications

                     COMPUTERS / Games see Computer Graphics / Game Programming & Design or GAMES / Video & Electronic

COM066000   COMPUTERS / Groupware

COM067000   COMPUTERS / Hardware / General

COM074000   COMPUTERS / Hardware / Handheld Computing

COM038000   COMPUTERS / Hardware / Mainframes & Minicomputers

COM075000   COMPUTERS / Hardware / Network Hardware

COM049000   COMPUTERS / Hardware / Peripherals

COM050000   COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / General

COM050020   COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / Macintosh

COM050010   COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / PCs

COM076000   COMPUTERS / Hardware / Workstations

COM080000   COMPUTERS / History

                     COMPUTERS / Hypertext Systems see Programming Languages / HTML

                     COMPUTERS / Information Storage & Retrieval see Data Processing / Storage & Retrieval

COM032000   COMPUTERS / Information Technology

COM031000   COMPUTERS / Information Theory

                     COMPUTERS / Input-Output Equipment see headings under Hardware

                     COMPUTERS / Integrated Software see Enterprise Applications or headings under Desktop Applications

COM034000   COMPUTERS / Interactive & Multimedia

COM060000   COMPUTERS / Internet / General

COM060090   COMPUTERS / Internet / Application Development

COM060010   COMPUTERS / Internet / Browsers

                     COMPUTERS / Internet / Commercial Use see Electronic Commerce or headings under BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce

                     COMPUTERS / Internet / Intranets see Networking / Intranets & Extranets

COM060040   COMPUTERS / Internet / Security

                     COMPUTERS / Internet / Server Maintenance see Hardware / Network Hardware

COM060060   COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Page Design

COM060070   COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Site Directories

COM060080   COMPUTERS / Internet / World Wide Web

COM035000   COMPUTERS / Keyboarding

                     COMPUTERS / Languages see headings under Programming Languages

COM036000   COMPUTERS / Logic Design

COM037000   COMPUTERS / Machine Theory

                     COMPUTERS / Mainframes & Minicomputers see Hardware / Mainframes & Minicomputers

COM039000   COMPUTERS / Management Information Systems

COM077000   COMPUTERS / Mathematical & Statistical Software

COM041000   COMPUTERS / Microprocessors

                     COMPUTERS / Multimedia see Interactive & Multimedia

COM042000   COMPUTERS / Natural Language Processing

COM043000   COMPUTERS / Networking / General

                     COMPUTERS / Networking / Internet see headings under Internet

COM060030   COMPUTERS / Networking / Intranets & Extranets

COM043020   COMPUTERS / Networking / Local Area Networks (LANs)

COM043040   COMPUTERS / Networking / Network Protocols

COM043050   COMPUTERS / Networking / Security

COM044000   COMPUTERS / Neural Networks

COM069000   COMPUTERS / Online Services / General

COM069010   COMPUTERS / Online Services / Resource Directories

COM046000   COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / General

COM046060   COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / DOS

COM046070   COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Linux

COM046020   COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Macintosh

COM046080   COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Mainframe & Midrange

COM046030   COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / UNIX

COM046050   COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Server & NT

COM046040   COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Workstation

                     COMPUTERS / Optical Data Processing see Data Processing / Optical Data Processing

                     COMPUTERS / Parallel Processing see Data Processing / Parallel Processing

                     COMPUTERS / Peripherals see Hardware / Peripherals

                     COMPUTERS / Personal Computers & Microcomputers see headings under Hardware / Personal Computers

COM051000   COMPUTERS / Programming / General

COM051300   COMPUTERS / Programming / Algorithms

                     COMPUTERS / Programming / Languages see headings under Programming Languages

COM051210   COMPUTERS / Programming / Object Oriented

COM051220   COMPUTERS / Programming / Parallel

COM051330   COMPUTERS / Programming / Quality Assurance & Testing

COM051230   COMPUTERS / Programming / Software Development

COM051240   COMPUTERS / Programming / Systems Analysis & Design

COM051010   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / General

COM051020   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Ada

COM051040   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Assembly Language

COM051050   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / BASIC

COM051060   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / C

COM051070   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / C++

COM051310   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / C#

COM051340   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / CGI

COM051080   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / COBOL

COM051090   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / FORTRAN

COM051270   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / HTML

COM051280   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Java

COM051260   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / JavaScript & VBScript

COM051100   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / LISP

COM051130   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Pascal

COM051350   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Perl

COM051140   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Prolog

COM051360   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Python

COM051290   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / RPG

COM051160   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Smalltalk

COM051170   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / SQL

                     COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / VBScript see Programming Languages / JavaScript & VBScript

COM051200   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Visual BASIC

COM051320   COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / XML

COM081000   COMPUTERS / Project Management

COM052000   COMPUTERS / Reference

COM053000   COMPUTERS / Security / General

                     COMPUTERS / Security / Internet see Internet / Security

                     COMPUTERS / Security / Networking see Networking / Security

COM015000   COMPUTERS / Security / Viruses

COM079000   COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General

COM079010   COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction

                     COMPUTERS / Systems Analysis see Programming / Systems Analysis & Design

COM070000   COMPUTERS / User Interfaces

COM056000   COMPUTERS / Utilities

                     COMPUTERS / Video Games see GAMES / Video & Electronic

COM057000   COMPUTERS / Virtual Reality

                     COMPUTERS / Viruses see Security / Viruses

 

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