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Books24x7, a SkillSoft Company, is a leading provider of web-based digital technical and business reference content, containing thousands of digitized "best-in-class" reference books, research reports, documentation and articles. Books24x7's hosted web-based platform enables users to search, browse, read and collaborate with vast professional "Referenceware" libraries assembled through its relationships with the world's top IT and business publishers. This includes, in the technical publishing arena, imprints like Microsoft Press, Wrox, Artech House and many others. In the business field, prominent publishing partners include AMACOM, ASTD Press, Berrett-Koehler, Harvard Business School Publishing, John Wiley, MIT Press, Oxford University Press and others.

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The ACM Online Books Program also includes a custom collection of 500 online books, powered by Books24x7®. This virtual library of complete unabridged books puts information at your fingertips! Search, bookmark, or read cover to cover. A personalized bookshelf allows for quick retrieval of your favorite book while bookmarks allow you to easily return to specific places in a book. View as many books as you like, as often as you like.  [View the book list]

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