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ACM Digital Library Database Guide: Narrowing and Selecting Results

Narrowing Results

ACM Digital Library allows you to NARROW your intitial search results using the REFINE options to the left of your search results. These options will allow you to NARROW your search to a particular author, publisher, institution, or date range. 

This can be helpful when looking for more recent works. Click PUBLICATION YEAR, then select the date range you would like to search with in.

Selecting Results

From the results list you can see the article title, where the article was published and how often the article has been downloaded. To select an article, click on the article title in the results list. 

From here you can view the full text PDF, read the abstract, or view other information in the tabs below such as who is citing this article, reviews, and more.