Acm to partner with federal library network for easier access to acm digital library content

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ACM TO PARTNER WITH FEDERAL LIBRARY NETWORK FOR EASIER ACCESS TO ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY CONTENT

NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 17, 2009 –ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) www.acm.org announced that it has agreed to participate in the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) of more than 1,000 U.S. Government member libraries to facilitate their access to the ACM Digital Library (DL) http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm. The agreement enables FEDLINK members to subscribe to the DL at a discounted price and to streamline their access to the DL’s vast online collection of resources, which are used by over 1 million computing professionals and students worldwide.
“This opportunity to offer leading-edge computing research on critical Internet security and networking issues to federal agencies and legislative committees brings us closer to putting high-impact computing content into the hands of U.S. government researchers, scientists, and engineers,” said Kevin Steiner, ACM Digital Library sales manager.
The agreement enables ACM to expand efforts to offer the online computing content of its DL to a critical part of the library market. Among the federal libraries that are eligible under this agreement are those maintained by many of the major science, energy, health, defense and intelligence agencies as well as several legislative committees. FEDLINK members can participate via the FEDLINK website or by emailing ACM at dl-info@acm.org . FEDLINK is the business subsidiary of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC).

This initiative is part of ACM’s ongoing investment in content, features, performance, and the worldwide reach of its Digital Library, which comprises an online collection of more than two million pages of full-text articles from ACM publications as well as one of the most comprehensive bibliographic databases in the computing field. The ACM DL includes an index of more than 7 million references, 1.25 million citations, and over 500,000 journal articles. ACM’s full-text database consists of many of the highest impact titles in the computing field dating back to 1954, and includes content from ACM’s wide range of

journals, magazines, conference proceedings, ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) newsletters, technical reports, and multimedia files.

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