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Honeywell Introduction to the ACM Digital LibraryJanuary 16, 2013

Honeywell Introduction to the ACM Digital LibraryJanuary 16, 2013

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Very Briefly About ACM

• The computing world’s oldest and largest professional MEMBER ORGANIZATION with over 100,000 Academics, Practitioners, and Students from over 180 countries around the world (i.e.- established in 1947)

• One of the computing world’s most respected PUBLISHERS of scholarly literature and one of the world’s most heavily used publication platform’s with over 15,000,000 full-text downloads per year

• The computing world’s leading CONFERENCE ORGANIZER with over 275 events annually (conferences, workshops, symposia, etc.)

• A key player in helping to establish and develop US PUBLIC POLICY REFORM and EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT in Washington D.C. (see http://usacm.acm.org/)

• Organizers and Sponsors of pre-eminent computing PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & ACADEMIC HONORS, such as the “Nobel Prize” in Computing….the A.M. Turing Award

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Very Briefly about ACM Digital Library

• The ACM Digital Library is three databases in one:

1. Full-text Articles published by ACM & full-text Articles published by Affiliates

2. Abstracting & Indexing Service covering the entire field of computing called the Guide to Computing Literature (i.e.- Scopus for CS)

3. Analytics Tool to help analyze CS publications, authors, & institutions

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A Quantitative Look at the ACM Digital Library

• 370,000 Full-text Articles – combination of journals, conferences, technical magazines, newsletters, affiliated publications, etc.

• 21,000 Full-text Articles added in 2012

• 2,000,000 Bibliographic Records now in the DL (journals, conference literature, books, dissertations, technical magazines, newsletters, technical reports, etc.)

• 259,000 Bibliographic Records added in 2012

• 3,500+ Multimedia files (Audio & Video)

• 1,780,000 Authors’ works indexed by the DL (over 11,000 have taken ownership of their pages)

• 6,000+ Institutions’ works indexed by the DL

• 6,000+ Publisher Imprints indexed by the DL

• 660 Journals indexed by the DL

• 750,000+ Conference Proceedings indexed by the DL

• 65,000+ dissertations indexed by the DL

• 165,000+ books indexed by the DL

• 17,000,000 References in the DL

• 6,100,000 Resolved References in the DL (via CrossRef)

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Digital Library Subject Areas

• Subject and Technical Areas Covered by the ACM Digital Library– Artificial Intelligence– Cloud Computing– Graphics/Imaging– Gaming– eLearning– Interaction Design– Communication– Data mining– Databases– Design Automation– Embedded Systems– Networking– Human Computer Interaction– Wireless/Mobility– Computer Architecture– Data Structures– Distributed Computing– Security– Software– Network Architecture– Many other more specialized topics covered (i.e.- published by ACM or not published by ACM)

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The New Computing Classification System (CCS)

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What is the ACM CCS?

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Analytics / Profile Pages

• 1st Generation Analytics Tools launched in 2011 & 2012

• 1st Generation system aggregates all of the data contained in the full-text collection and Guide at the article level.

• Based on a recent workshop conducted in the fall of 2012 with members of the CS & library communities, 2nd Generation system is now under development.

• 2nd Generation system will aggregate data at the people level, in addition to the article level. This will give users the ability to search people and people-based relationships more easily, using various facets such as time, co-authorship, subject areas, institutions, publications, etc.

• For example, the system will have the ability to answer questions, such as:– What people published in the area of AI between 2008-2012?– What people were affiliated with MIT, Stanford, or Berkeley from 2005-2012 that worked in the field of

Computer Security?

• We will demo the 1st Generation system in a few minutes

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For Librarians Looking for Additional Info on the ACM DL

Go to http://librarians.acm.org

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Topics Covered In Today’s Demo

• Sign In – Setting up personalized features, such as binders, sharing, annotations, etc.

• Basic Search– Searching the Guide and Searching the full-text DL

• Advanced Search

• Computing Classification System – Drilling Down by Subject Areas

• Analytics / Profile Pages– Author Profile Pages / Collaborators – Useful for NSF Staff– Institutional Profile Pages– Publication Profile Pages

• It would be great to include NSF Funding Data as a metadata item in system. Who to talk to about taking this forward.

• Questions & Answers