The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an international professional organization for computing with over 200,000 members worldwide. Founded in 1947, ACM is focused on computer science, engineering, and information technology. ACM provides resources and opportunities to advance computing as a field through its digital library, publications, conferences, student and professional membership programs. The ACM Digital Library contains over 400,000 articles and is a comprehensive source of information for computing professionals and students.

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.