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ACM Digital Library Journals Agreement 2017-2019

  • Start: 1 Jan 2017
    Expiry: 31 Dec 2019
  • Description:

    The ACM Digital Library is a comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.

Product overview

The ACM Digital Library is a comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters and multimedia titles, and currently consists of:

  • Over 446,000 full-text articles
  • More than 18,000 new full-text articles added each year
  • 53 peer-reviewed Scholarly Journals with 2-3 new journals being launched each year
  • Over 17,300 unique conference publication volumes
  • 275+ conference proceedings added each year
  • Eight magazines (including the flagship Communications of the ACM, the most heavily-cited publication in computing)
  • 37 technical newsletters sponsored by ACM's Special Interest Groups
  • More than 6,500 video files
  • 594 Audio files

The ACM Digital Library is heavily integrated with and includes unrestricted access to the Guide to Computing Literature bibliography.

Backfiles or archives included

Access to ACM's entire archive back to 1954 at no additional charge.

The Archive Collection dating back to 1954

Update Type

Daily

Update Notes

Information not available.

Key licence properties

  • Include in VLE

  • Walk In Access

  • Include In Coursepacks

  • Remote Access

  • ILL - InterLibraryLoans

  • Alumni Access

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