ACM Guide to Computing Literature

ACM Guide to Computing Literature is a database, published by the Association for Computing Machinery, that categorizes and abstracts most computer science literature.

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The guide contains some 750,000 citations from 3,000+ publishers, including ACM, covering: 1) books, 2) journal articles, 3) conference proceedings, 4) doctoral dissertations, 5)master's theses, and 6) technical reports

Who has access to the Guide? There two levels of use as follows:

All ACM Professional, Student, and Special Interest Group (SIG) members get full access to the Guide (including Advanced Search) as a basic membership benefit. A free ACM Web Account is required.

Non-Members and the General Public can freely access the Basic Search and Browse options on the main Guide: 1) Basic Search: On the Guide main page, type your word or phrase into the text box. The search engine will search on each word individually as well as on the whole phrase. Put quotations (" ") around the phrase to search on the exact phrase. 2) Browse the Guide: by type of publication (books, journal articles, proceedings papers, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, or technical reports); CCS term, keyword, or proper noun (a proprietary name such as C++ or UNIX); author; and reviewer.

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