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introducing...

ACM’s

Newly Expanded

Online Books

& Courses Programs!

Helping Members Meet Today’s Career Challenges

3,000 Online Courses from SkillSoft

The ACM Online Course Collection features unlimited access to 3,000 online courses from SkillSoft, a

leading provider of e-learning solutions. This new collection of courses offers a

host of valuable resources that will help to maximize your learning experience.

Available on a wide range of information technology and business subjects, these

courses are open to ACM Professional and Student Members.

SkillSoft courses offer a number of valuable features, including:

• Job Aids, tools and forms that complement and support course content

• Skillbriefs, condensed summaries of the instructional content of a course topic

• Mentoring via email, online chats, threaded discussions - 24/7

• Exercises, offering a thorough interactive practice session appropriate to the

learning points covered previously in the course

• Downloadable content for easy and convenient access

• Downloadable Certificate of Completion

“The course Certificate

of Completion is

great to attach to

job applications!”

ACM Professional Member

600 Online Books from Safari

The ACM Online Books Collection includes

unlimited access to 600 online books from

Safari® Books Online, featuring leading publishers

including O’Reilly. Safari puts a complete IT

and business e-reference library right on your

desktop. Available to ACM Professional

Members, Safari will help you zero in on

exactly the information you need, right when

you need it.

500 Online Books from Books24x7

All Professional and Student Members also have

unlimited access to 500 online books from

Books24x7®, in ACM’s rotating collection of com-

plete unabridged books on the hottest comput-

ing topics. This virtual library puts information

at your fingertips. Search, bookmark, or read

cover-to-cover. Your bookshelf allows for quick

retrieval and bookmarks let you easily return

to specific places in a book.

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