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[Dbworld] SIGMOD/VLDB Digital Library Donation Program From: "Myung Kim " Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:19:15 -0600 (CST)

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SIGMOD/VLDB DIGITAL LIBRARY DONATION PROGRAM

http://pike.ewha.ac.kr/sigmod-dvd

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ACM SIGMOD and the VLDB Foundation have established a joint program to donate database literature to universities in developing countries, with the goal of assisting in the expansion of the database community in those countries. Currently available literature includes SIGMOD's Silver Edition and the SIGMOD 2003 DiSC, both on DVDs. The Silver Edition is a comprehensive collection of 30 years of database research literature and related materials; the complete table of contents for the Silver Edition can be found at http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/anthology.html. The 2003 DiSC contains the proceedings of many database research conferences that took place in 2002, plus database research journal issues from that year and other related materials; see http://sigmod.discgenesis.net/ for the complete table of contents.

A request for a donation should be made by visiting our website (http://pike.ewha.ac.kr/sigmod-dvd) and filling out an application form. An explicit designation that the applicant agrees to the rules is required. The rules are as follows.

(1) The donated material is for the use by all patrons of the recipient library. (2) The library will make the donated material available for reference/limited circulation to the patrons. (3) The library will take all conventionally accepted steps to abide by the copyright restrictions on the material.

Note that the donations will be made according to the following criteria.

(1) Donations will be made to libraries in universities in developing and undeveloped countries according to their UN classification. (2) Donations to universities in developed countries will be made only in the context of demonstrated need, at a lower priority. (3) Only one packet per University library will be donated. (4) Graduate degree awarding departments and universities will get priority over non-graduate degree awarding departments and universities.

*** Requests will be processed in the order in which they arrive. *** To apply for the 2-DVD Silver Anthology set and the SIGMOD 2003 DiSC, please visit http://pike.ewha.ac.kr/sigmod-dvd and fill out an application form.

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Digital Library Donation Program Co-Directors

Amr El Abbadi Department of Computer Science University of Califormia Santa Barbara, CA 93106 U.S.A. amr@cs.ucsb.edu

Myung Kim Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ewha Womans University Seoul 120-750, Korea mkim@ewha.ac.kr