ACM Digital Library

Offer Status:	closed till 2010 renewal	Renew Via:	PALCI
Renewal Date:	May 1	Invoice:	from PALCI
Renewal Type:	annual	Deadline to Renew:	April 10
Current Participant Level: 28 libraries = $ 4,935.00/library

Offer Details

The consortial agreement includes access to all ACM content:

- the ACM Digital Library magazines and journals
- the ACM Digital Master Special Interest Group conference proceedings and
newsletters
- the ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature, citations database to non ACM
works in IT and Computing

There is a minimum of three libraries required to qualify for the discount. With this offer, there will be one license agreement, signed by PALCI, and your invoice will come from PALCI.

Deadline to subscribe is April 10, 2009. To subscribe, contact Cheryl Greer.

Current Subscribers:

Any institution that has ACM subscriptions/memberships may 'jump' to the (lower-priced) consortium deal.

Please note:

***There are no credits applied by ACM from their institutional subscriptions to their consortium participation. ACM will bill PALCI in full for all participants for the full year. Once PALCI has made start date final (not before), the institution that is 'jumping' to the better price deal must CANCEL FOR REFUND in writing with ACM Customer Service for refund of any unused portion of subscription.

*** Participants can cancel all or retain print issues if they choose to. Print is purchased via ACM, not PALCI.

***If you have had an ACM institutional membership in the past, you will not retain it with the consortial subscription. You will therefore lose your ACM voting rights, conference discounts, and other benefits. If you want to retain institutional membership, you may purchase a print package seperately from PALCI, or any individual from your school may purchase an individual membership.

2008/09 Pricing

# of Libraries	Price per Library	List Price
27	$4,638	12,650
28	$4,563	12,650
29	$4,493	12,650
30	$4,428	12,650
31	$4,366	12,650
32	$4,309	12,650

Try ACM

To learn more, visit: www.acm.org/dl

Users can become familiar with the content and the functions of the ACM Digital Library by logging on and performing simple searches with a free ACM Web Account:
https://campus.acm.org/public/accounts/create.cfm

Scroll down and click on 'Non-member client' and create a free ACM Web Account.

About ACM Digital Library

ACM's Digital Library and Guide were evaluated as "indispensable resources for computer science and information technology research" by Choice, the magazine of the American Library Association. In a recent review of the ACM Portal, ACM's gateway to its vast web-based array of information, the Choice reviewer "strongly encourages research libraries to maintain a subscription to the ACM Portal." Summing up its assessment, the reviewer termed the ACM Portal "Highly recommended. All levels of users."

With its reliable, fast-growing online repository of publications and bibliographic citations from the broad universe of published IT literature, ACM's DL and Guide give researchers and browsers an edge in the marketplace. The Choice reviewer noted that the Guide "provides a search engine with access to more than 750,000 abstracts and bibliographic references in information technology." It added that "the Digital Library supplies a search engine and full text for ACM publications ranging from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings dating back as far as 1952."

Advantages of the ACM Digital Library and Guide

Search Capabilities - The Digital Library, ACM's full-text collection of its published papers from more than 50 years of computing history, functions like standard Internet search engines. It uses a Boolean OR protocol on the default search, which posts results on a scale of relevance, and displays search terms on a Search Results page. Users can run an Advanced Search as well as re-run the search in the DL from other areas of the Portal. They can link directly to the full text, and displays abstracts, references, and citings. Searches are able to turn up index terms from ACM's Computing Classification System (CCS) and reviews from Computing Reviews.

Visual Clarity - The DL and the Guide, a collection of more than 800,000 bibliographic citations and abstracts from all major publishers in computing, appear in separate boxes on the main Portal page, enabling users to know which "search space" they are in. This single-window view (except for full text) gives users the option to spawn a new window for more details on items in the retrieved list, which remain visible in a separate open window.

Helpful Hints - The ACM Portal home page offers clarity of text and graphics as well as links from the DL and the Guide to expanded FAQs. It posts news briefs and links from TechNews, ACM's tri-weekly news service which scans the headlines to bring issues of interest to the IT professional. The most popular courses from ACM's Professional Development Centre are posted on the Portal home page, with links to the PD Centre's menu of resources to help ACM members meet current career challenges.

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.

For More Info, Contact:

Scott Delman
ACM Digital Library Sales
212 626 0659
scott.delman@acm.org

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