The ACM Digital Library

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The ACM Digital Library

• Mark Mandelbaum
• Director, Office of Publications
• ACM
• mandelbaum_at_acm.org
• China Conference
• Xiamen, China
• November 21-22, 2005

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About ACM

• Founded in 1947 - 7 members
• Now has over 85,000 members
• Includes 19,000 student members
• 30 of all members from outside N.A.

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Major ACM Activities

• Publishing 35 journals, 7 magazines a year
• Conferences gt120 a year, each with a proceedings
• Curricula develops curricula recommendations for
  grad. and undergraduate programs in CS, Software
  Engineering, Information Systems.

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The ACM Digital Library

• Contains full-text of all journals, magazines,
  proceedings published by ACM all going back to
  their first volumes/issues.
• Over 175,000 articles all in pdf 10 also in
  html.
• Also contains full text of other publishers
  content, by arrangement with them
• Value of gt US1500 savings to library

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Some non-ACM content

• Computational Linguistics MIT Press
• The Linux Journal SSC Publishing
• Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Springer
• Mobile Networks Kluwer/Springer
• The VLDB Journal Springer
• And more!

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Some other Features

• Includes bibliographic database Guide to
  Computing Literature
• 900,000 citations of all CS publishers
• Many with links to source
• Very rich metadata each article includes
• Abstract
• Clickable references
• Citings (forward links to articles that cited
  this one)
• Collaborative Colleagues (lists of all
  co-authors of all other papers by this author)
• Peer-to peer (like Amazons service)
• Very sophisticated search

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Policies of the Digital Library

• Unlimited simultaneous usage no restrictions
• Unlimited print ILL
• Perpetual access guaranteed after three years
  subscription
• Cross Ref and (mostly) COUNTER compliant
• IBM SurfAid Analytics
• One set of print made available to consortium on
  request (price does not change if no print is
  needed)
• 30-day trial
• All interactions with iGroup Asia only
• Sole source for Asia

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Numbers

• Full-text downloads per month 2 Million
• Searches per month gt560,000
• of libraries worldwide that subscribe 2100
• 74 consortia
• 30 corporate site licenses
• Growth rate of new business 18 per annum
• 30,000 ind. (Member) subscribers

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See it

• http//www.acm.org/dl

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