ACM Digital Library for Computing Professionals
The ACM has released a new version of it digital library, and, is offering a free three-month trial of it.
From the announcement:
- Reorganized author profile pages that present a snapshot of author contributions and metrics of author influence by monitoring publication and citation counts and download usage volume
- Broadened citation pages for individual articles with tabs for metadata and links to facilitate exploration and discovery of the depth of content in the DL
- Enhanced interactivity tools such as RSS feeds, bibliographic exports, and social network channels to retrieve data, promote user engagement, and introduce user content
- Redesigned binders for creating personal, annotatable collections of bibliographies or reading lists, and sharing them with ACM and non-ACM members, or exporting them into standard authoring tools like self-generated virtual PDF publications
- Expanded table-of-contents opt-in service for all publications in the DL—from ACM and other publishers—that alerts users via email and RSS feeds to new issues of journals, magazines, newsletters, and proceedings.
I mention it here for a couple of reasons:
1) For resources on computing, whether contemporary or older materials, I can’t think of a better starting place for research. I am here more often than not.
2) It sets a benchmark for what is available in terms of digital libraries. If you are going to use topic maps to build a digital library, what would you do better?