1. ASSOCIATION FOR
COMPUTING
MACHINERY (ACM)
By: Mahnoor Paracha
BCS-11-02

2. ABOUT ACM
Founded: 1947
Type: Professional membership group
Focus: Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Informational
Technology.
Location: New York City
Area Served: Worldwide
Membership: More than 200,000 memberships as per 2013
Website: https://www.acm.org/

3. ACM:
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an
international learned society for computing. ACM, the
world’s largest educational and scientific computing
society, delivers resources that advance computing as
a science and a profession. ACM Digital Library (DL) is
the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles
and bibliographic records in existence today 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.

4. ACM – (I)
It currently includes…
407,367 Full-text articles
2.0+ Million Pages of full-text articles
18,000+ New full-text articles added each year
44+ High Impact Journals with 2-3 new journals being launched each year
275+ Conference Proceedings Titles added each year
2,000+ Proceedings Volumes
8 Magazines
37 Technical Newsletters from ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
6,500+ Video files
594 Audio files

5. WHO IS IN ACM?
Educators
Researchers
Industry professionals
Students

6. ACM GOALS
Connect members with valuable career opportunities.
Connect academic, government and corporate employees with
qualified candidates in computing industry.
Connect with student government.

7. PURPOSE:
"The purpose of this organization would be to
the science, development, construction, and
the new machinery for computing, reasoning, and
handling of information.’’

8. WHY TO JOIN ACM?
Each other’s advice on classes.
Projects.
Employment opportunities.
Participate in social activities.
Latest research and development.

9. MEMBERSHIP:
Professional memberships.
Student Membership.
Lifetime membership.
Special Interest Group (SIG) Membership.

10. PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS:
Timely access to relevant information
Communications of the ACM, the essential source for computing
professionals
ACM Digital Library, optional subscription to full text articles from
publications
ACM Queue, for core content and quality sources for practitioners
50+ ACM journals and magazines
TechNews, tri-weekly email digest of the latest IT news

11. PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS – (I)
Resources to enhance your career
ACM Tech Packs, annotated reading lists on current topics compiled
experts exclusively for ACM
Learning Center with resources for lifelong learning
Online courses targeted toward essential IT skills and popular certifications
Online Books from Safari® Books Online, Books24x7®, Morgan Kaufmann and
Learning Paths in Ruby and Python, as well as podcasts of interviews with many of
innovators
Option to join 37 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and hundreds of local
chapters
ACM Career & Job Center for career-enhancing benefits

12. PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS – (II)
Communications tools and benefits
Email Forwarding and Filtering Service
Table-of-Contents Alerts option to receive email and RSS feeds to
issues of publications as they are posted to the DL.
Member Net, a monthly e-newsletter on people and programs
Career News, an email digest of career-related topics
ACM discounts and special offers and Member Recognition Programs

13. STUDENT MEMBERSHIP
BENEFITS:
Learning Center with resources for lifelong learning
 Online courses targeted toward essential IT skills and popular certifications
 Online books from Books24x7®, Safari®, Morgan Kaufmann and Syngress
 Webinars on hot topics, presented by today's innovators
The option to subscribe to the full ACM Digital Library, which includes over 2
pages of text
A full year (12 issues) electronic subscription to Communications of the ACM
A full-year (4 issues) subscription to XRDS: Crossroads, ACM's Student
A full-year electronic subscription to monthly Member Net
A full-year subscription to TechNews, ACM's tri-weekly email IT news digest
A full-year subscription to Career News, ACM's twice monthly email career

14. STUDENT MEMBERSHIP
BENEFITS – (I)
A free email forwarding address with high-quality spam filtering
Free access to software and courseware through the ACM Student Academic Initiative
Discounts on subscriptions to ACM journals, magazines, books, and conferences
Networking Opportunities:
A vast network of over 100,000 highly dedicated student and professional peers
The opportunity to join one or more of ACM's Special Interest Groups in 37 specialty
areas of IT
The opportunity to join one of more than 500 ACM Student Chapters worldwide
Unique volunteering opportunities to gain hands-on experience and knowledge of the
marketplace

15. SIG BENEFITS:
Keeping you up-to-date with the latest technical developments.
Providing an opportunity to network with colleagues outside your workplace.
Delivering cutting-edge information, focused resources and unparalleled
forums for discussions.

16. SEARCH METHODS
Browse the digital library
Quick search
Advanced search

17. Homepage

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Browse

19. Browse Journals/Transactions

20. BROWSE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

21. BROWSE : ACM CSS

22. ADVANCE SEARCH
WE ARE USE ADVANCED SEARCH WITH BOOLEAN SEARCH LIKE
AND, OR, NOT
Words or Phrases
Names
Keywords
Affiliations
Publication
Conference
Identification codes
Computing Classification System (CCS)
Required components

23. ADVANCED SEARCH

24. ANNOUNCEMENTSANNOUNCEMENTS

25. RECENTLY LOADED ISSUES AND PROCEEDING

26. COMPUTING REVIEWS
WE CAN SEE REVIEWS OF NEW BOOK’S AND ARTICLE

27. DOWNLOAD AND PRINT: AFTER THAT WE CAN DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT WITH PDF
FORMAT AND SAVE ALSO PRINT. THERE IS AVAILABLE ARCHIVE ISSUE THAT
PARTICULAR JOURNAL’S

28. REFERENCE
http://dl.acm.org/dl.cfm
Thank You.