What is the Guide?
The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers. Citations for all ACM published works are included in the Guide as a small subset of the total bibliographic space.
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
How does the Guide differ from the DL?
- The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers.
- The Digital Library is the full-text repository of papers published by ACM and by other publishers that have co-publishing or co-marketing agreements with ACM.
How do I find what I'm looking for?
- Basic Search: On the Guide main page, type your word or phrase into the text box. The search engine searches on each word individually as well as on the whole phrase. Put quotations (" ") around the phrase to search the exact phrase.
- Advanced Search: On the Advanced Search screen, use the fields provided to conduct your search based on specific criteria, such as a key word or phrase, author, ISBN or ISSN. Customize your search by specifying month and year the item was published; item type; or ACM Computing Classification (CCS) term. Use these fields independently or combine them.
- Browse the Guide: Browsing options include:
- CCS term, keyword, or proper noun (a proprietary name such as C++ or UNIX)
- Author
- Reviewer
- Type of publication (books, journal articles, proceedings papers, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, or technical reports)
What are "Collaborative Colleagues"?
Authors who co-authored a work with the referenced author(s). Under each referenced author's name is a listing of their co-authors. Hyperlinks on the authors' and co-authors' names cross-reference all papers in the Guide that were authored or co-authored by that person.
What is the Peer-to-Peer facility?
A section that lists papers which at least 500 readers of the retrieved paper have read. Since this feature is available only for items where ACM has full text, most of these papers are in the Digital Library.
How do I log in to the Guide?
Hit the login button on the top right of the screen and enter your ACM Web account username and password. When the button changes to logout, your name appears.
How do I create an ACM Web account?
Setting up an ACM Web account is free for both ACM members or non-members. With the Web account you establish your username and password, the main entry points to access table-of-contents alerts, binders, and other ACM services. To create a free ACM Web account, go to: https://campus.acm.org/public/accounts/create.cfm.
Who has access to the Guide?
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
What is a binder?
The virtual binder is your own personal bibliography, drawn from the rich collection of citations in ACM's bibliographic databases, the Digital Library and Guide to Computing Literature.
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