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ACM Digital Library |
funded by |
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Subject Content |
Computer
science and systems. |
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Date Coverage |
Varies by title. Earliest
date is the Journal of the ACM available from 1954-current. See the list
of journals for more details (the direct link is located toward the
bottom of this page). |
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Type of Material Covered |
Articles from journals,
magazines, transactions, and conference proceedings published by the ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery). |
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Full-text |
Yes. |
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Refereed Journal Filter |
No. |
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Remote Access |
Available to Boise State University students, staff, and faculty after
entering BroncoWeb userid and password |
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Help Pages |
http://portal.acm.org/search_help.cfm OR
Click the Search Tips link on the Advanced Search page. |
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Boolean |
+ in front of term to
require the term in the results
- in front of term to eliminate the term in the results
And, or not |
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Truncation Symbol
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Words are
automatically stemmed
* replaces multiple letters at the end of a word
? use within the word, each ? represents one character |
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Other Search Options |
Computing Classification
System, or CCS, is used for subject terms. Current and historical CCS
are available for review at:
http://www.acm.org/class/. Article and
paper searches using the CCS can be accomplished on the Advanced Search
page. Indexing terms for each article are selected by the article
authors. |
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Alerts |
Emailed
Table of Contents are available through registration under Personalized
Services. My Binder functions (saving search results and queries) are
reserved for Professional and Student members of ACM. |
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Special Notes |
By selecting the radio
button to the left of “The Guide” (above the search box), you can search
the Guide to Computing Literature, a listing of citations and abstracts
from the computing literature which contains publications from other
publishers as well as ACM titles. |
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List of Journals |
http://portal.acm.org/contents_dl.cfm?coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=8155185&CFTOKEN=49210985 |
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Related Indexes |
Look
under Computer Science on the Article Indexes by Subject (link to
http://library.boisestate.edu/reference/subjectindexes/)
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Reference Assistance |
Phone, email, chat, and
in-person reference services are available; link to
http://library.boisestate.edu/reference.htm for further information.
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