The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced the launch of the new ACM Digital Library Resource site at http://librarians.acm.org. The new site is expected to serve as a valuable tool for librarians, consortium administrators, subscription agents, and end users interested in learning more about the ACM Digital Library.
The new ACM Digital Library Resource site provides detailed information about ACM publications contained in the DL; features and functionality of the platform; subscription and pricing information for institutional subscribers; end user training and marketing materials; free trial information; and a growing list of other services for existing and new subscribers. According to ACM, it is investing heavily in the development of its cutting edge content delivery platform and scholarly publications. This site is expected to serve as an important resource to keep the library community informed of these developments.
As one of the world's leading technology associations, the ACM was one of the first publishers to launch a full-text database of scholarly literature (back in 1997) and make this database available to subscribers. Over a decade later, the ACM continues to develop, host, and maintain the Digital Library platform itself, which gives the Association the ability to customise the functionality of the platform specifically for the specialised needs of its users in the fields of computer science and information technology.
The ACM Digital Library consists of one of the world's largest databases of full-text articles on computing (over 280,000 articles dating back to 1954) and the field's largest bibliographic database (The ACM Guide to Computing Literature) with over 1,500,000 articles and 8,000,000 references with total DL usage in 2009 exceeding 13,750,000 full-text downloads.
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