The ACM is the Association of Computing Machinery, the American professional computer society. I've been a member before, but recently rejoined to gain access to their digital library, which I cannot recommend highly enough. Real downloadable conference papers and journal articles on every computer related topic under the sun. All, in pursuit of information for my two etcon/etech papers.
There is a free service, but it is limited to search and abstract only, joining the ACM is about 100 dollars, then I think it is better to join some SIGs rather than the library, I joined SIGCHI and SIGWEB and get access to all relevant papers via the two SIG affiliations. I've been feeling like an academic again, which is nice.
Building Social Web Applications by Gavin Bell.
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