ACM, founded in 1947, is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide. Its 80,000 members, as well as students and scholars, turn to ACM as the industry’s leading source of computing literature, authoritative publications and pioneering conferences.
The nine new titles include:
- ACM Computing Surveys holds comprehensive tutorials and survey papers covering the literature and explaining topics to those who seek to learn about areas outside their specialties
- ACM Transactions on Computer Systems publishes the newest findings of the computing research field
- Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery is the internationally acknowledged premier magazine of the computing field.
- Computers in Entertainment is an online quarterly covering the latest developments in software, hardware and business policies that improve existing mainstream entertainment and create new genres of entertainment
- eLearn is a web-only source for news, information, and opinion on online education and training
- Interactions is a new magazine on applied human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery covers theoretical research in the core areas of computing; its authors are world class scientists
- NetWorker delivers the latest on technologies and trends to its audience of practitioners, designers, business managers and others plugged into the networking culture
- ACM Queue analyzes trends in computing from an information professional’s perspective
“We are pleased to add these well-known journals to our business databases. We provide more than 40,000 computer science doctoral dissertation citations for ACM’s use. This new agreement makes the information exchange two-way, increasing the opportunities for researchers to gain insight into the fast-changing information technology field,” said Suzanne BeDell, ProQuest vice president, publishing.
The titles are available in the ABI/INFORM® business database suite, including a five-year backfile of full-text content for each title. The content is available in full text, Text+Graphics, abstract and index, and PDF Image.
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About ACM
ACM (www.acm.org) is widely recognized as the premier organization for computing professionals, delivering resources that advance the computing and IT disciplines, enable professional development, and promote policies and research that benefit society. ACM hosts the computing industry’s leading Digital Library and Guide to Computing Literature, and serves its 80,000 global members and the computing profession with journals and magazines, conferences, workshops, electronic forums, and its Career Resource Centre and Professional Development Centre.
About ProQuest Information and Learning
ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide for researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,500 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-HealeyTM electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibraryTM, SIRS® and Voyager Expanded Learning educational resources, and XanEduTM online faculty and student resources. ProQuest Information and Learning is a business unit of ProQuest Company (www.proquestcompany.com), which was recently named one of the top 100 fastest growing technology companies in the United States by Business 2.0. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.
