Other Places to look for Technical Reports

The ACM Digital Library

Print Collection

The ACM collection is currently housed in the basement of the Engineering Library. Sometime in the future, we hope to move these items to the back of the reference collection. The Reference Librarian/Assistant is responsible for going to the basement to retrieve any Depository materials for a patron. The patrons will need the call number of the item to obtain the item.

Stacks and Periodicals Holdings

We also purchase copies of ACM items for our collection. Almost everything in the depository should be duplicated in our collection. All the journals are on the second floor, conference proceedings at their call numbers on the third or fourth floors. Consult the Libraries catalog for holdings information. Items from periodicals or general stacks can be checked out.

Circulation Policy

All ACM depository items are Library Use Only. If we do not have the item in our stacks or periodicals section we can do "Circulation by special permission", but only if the patron is an EE or CSE graduate student or faculty and need to take it out of the library for photocopying at their department photocopier.

Do we have it?

Be aware that although we may not have the particular item that is cited that we may have the same article, possible published in or published as another ACM publication. Use the Indexes listed below to verify or determine all the places an article may be published.

Published in/Published as

ACM is a real nightmare when it comes to indexing and publishing. The reason is that any given item can be published in more than one publication. This is especially true of conference proceedings. They are sometimes published as the special issue of a journal, a numbered issue of a different journal, and/or published separately as a conference proceeding.

The reason this happens is that conferences are often sponsored by more than one SIG (Special Interest Group). Each SIG will then go out and publish the proceedings in their particular journal or individually.

Indexes

INSPEC (full record), MELVYL, OCLC, CISTI, or, ACM searchable catalog on their website (http://www.acm.org/catalog/), or the Digital Library, http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm

ACM has a bundle of different Special Interest Groups. Consult the website http://www.acm.org for detailed information and the link to each SIG’s homepage.

Patents and Trademarks

United States Patent and Trademark Office

For over 200 years, the basic role of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has remained the same: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution). Under this system of protection, American industry has flourished. New products have been invented, new uses for old ones discovered, and employment opportunities created for millions of Americans.

The PTO is a non-commercial federal entity and one of 14 bureaus in the Department of Commerce (DOC). The office occupies a combined total of over 1,400,000 square feet, in numerous buildings in Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. The office employs over 5,000 full time equivalent (FTE) staff to support its major functions--- the examination and issuance of patents and the examination and registration of trademarks.

The PTO has evolved into a unique government agency. Since 1991-- under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1990-- the PTO has operated in much the same way as a private business, providing valued products and services to our customers in exchange for fees, which are used to fully fund our operations. The primary services the USPTO provides include processing patents and trademarks and disseminating patent and trademark information.

(most of the above is copied directly from the USPTO website)

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