Monday, February 14, 2005

New Product Announcement--->The guide to computing literature

The guide to computing literature

This ACM guide provides a bibliographic database from the key publishers in computing, including books, journals, proceedings and theses.

Linking to full text is done through the DOI bookmark in the record instead of an SFX button.

What's in the Guide?

More than 750,000 citations from 3,000+ publishers, including ACM, covering:

* books
* journal articles
* conference proceedings
* doctoral dissertations
* master's theses, and technical reports

What is a Citation?

Citations consist of title, author, publication data, and, when available:

* abstracts
* citings (where the paper has been referenced by other papers)
* references (by the paper to other papers)
* index terms from ACM's Computing Classification System (CCS)
* reviews from ACM's Computing Reviews
* ACM member DL subscribers also get access to the Online Computing Reviews Service
* DOIs: Digital Object Identifiers, URLs that provide permanent links to papers on the publisher's Web site

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