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    Full access to 600 online books from the Safari Enterprise Library®, featuring leading publishers including O'Reilly. Available to ACM Professional Members.

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    The option to subscribe to the full ACM Digital Library, which contains full-text of all articles in ACM's journals and magazines, conference proceedings, and SIG newsletters.

  • Guide to Computing Literature

    The Guide to Computing Literature, with over one million searchable bibliographic citations, extending far beyond ACM's proprietary literature.

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