ACM

The definitive online resource for computing professionals. The world’s most comprehensive database of computing literature provides access to ACM’s collection of publications dating to the 1940s. It also includes access to bibliographic citations from published IT literature starting in the mid-80s.

Used by over 1.5 million individuals from nearly 200 countries around the world 20,000 + new full-text articles added each year

800,000 + multimedia files

Integrated Format

Features, functionality, and content are critical assets for computing professionals who drive innova- tion. The DL facilitates information dissemination and sharing, interoperability, and collaboration for computing professionals, practitioners, researchers, and educators.

Comprehensive Collection

An extensive collection of ACM journals, magazines, and peer reviewed articles, as well as conference proceedings and ACM SIG newsletters totaling more than three million pages as well as third-party bibliographic content from leading publishers with links to original material and selected archives.

Personalized Searches

Enables users to conduct custom searches via key word or phrase, author, publication name or year, institution, editor, format, ISBN, or ISSN.

Users have the added ability to:

◆Browse and search ACM journals, conference proceedings, magazines, and newsletters.

◆Share and export detailed bibliographic resources from other publishers, including data for every author and article in the archive.

◆Test new personalized tools and features with friends and colleagues.

Subscription Access

Available by subscription to individual ACM Members and Institutions. For more information about the DL’s content, features, and pricing, or to arrange a free trial, contact dl-info@acm.org or call 212-626-0676.

www.acm.org/dl

Using the ACM Digital Library

ACM DL subscribers have unlimited access to the full text of all ACM publications as well as a gateway to one of the largest abstracting and indexing databases in computing. The DL’s enhanced functionality simplifies usability, extends connections, and expands content with a wide range of personalized tools and features.

Author profile pages capturing contributions and author influence metrics of publication and citations counts and download usage volume

Citation pages with tabs for metadata and links to expand exploration and discovery

Customized binders to create personal, annotatable reading lists for sharing and exporting

Table-of-Contents service for all publications in the DL with alerts via email and RSS feeds

Interactivity tools to retrieve data, promote user engagement, and introduce user-contributed content

Visualization technology for 150+ international ACM- related conferences with multidimensional geographic maps that display the expanding global array of ACM events.

Map page conference listings link to individual conferences pages. Tag clouds show aggregated views of subject areas for each conference. Conferences listed alphabetically and chronologically with links to published proceedings and related information for each event.

Getting started is easy! Go to http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm and login if you are an ACM individual member with a DL subscription. If your organization already has an institutional subscription, access the DL directly without a username or password.

“The ACM Digital Library is the premier digital collection of scholarly information and articles in the field of computing housed within a cutting edge online distribution platform.

There is no other digital collection like this in the world today.”