How to Use the Guide to Computin

ACM Digital Library Home Page

To do a Basic Search in the Guide to Computing Literature:

Click on The Guide
Type your search term in the Search Box
Click Search

To do an Advanced Search in the Guide to Computing Literature:

Click Go to The Guide THEN AT THE NEXT SCREEN
Click Advanced Search
Fill in your search criteria

The Guide to Computing Literature Home Page:

Advanced Search Page in the Guide to Computing Literature:

Before you click on Advanced Search,

you can click on Computing Classification System for an explanation of ACM Digital Library's classification system

Click on one of the index titles for an explanation

Select a Publication type here

(BOOKS, JOURNALS, PROCEEDINGS, DOCTORAL THESES, MASTERS THESES or REPORTS)

Complete the search terms with the same criteria as with previous Advanced Search pages

Results of Advanced Search in The Guide to Computing Literature

This search in the ACM Digital Library returned 6 full-text articles, whereas the Guide to Computing Literature returned 29 results. Not all of the entries are available through the Guide in full text. You will have to check the UTD catalog for availability. You will go to the UTD catalog, do a Title search and search for the source of the article (Information Visualization, or Statistics and Computing, or World Wide Web) then follow the links to the full text, or order it using our Interlibrary Loan Service.