April 17, 2008 –ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has introduced several major advances to its Digital Library, the vast online collection of more than two million pages of full-text articles from ACM publications as well as a bibliographic database of published computing literature that currently holds more than one million records. The new features include detailed Author Profile pages as well as citation and usage statistics that provide a snapshot of an individual author’s contributions to computing, and some measure of their influence in advancing the field. ACM also invites users to propose changes to personal information displayed on the Author Profile pages in the Digital Library (DL), which is open to the computing community for no charge with an ACM web account.
Description: The Author Profile Page initially collects all the professional information known about authors from the publications record as known by the ACM bibliographic database, the Guide. Coverage of ACM publications is comprehensive from the 1950's. Coverage of other publishers generally starts in the mid 1980's. The Author Profile Page supplies a quick snapshot of an author's contribution to the field and some rudimentary measures of influence upon it. Over time, the contents of the Author Profile page may expand at the direction of the community.
J. Teevan, S. Dumais, D. Liebling, und R. Hughes. UIST '09: Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, Seite 237--246. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)