At first glance this appears to include everything including conference proceedings, which makes it better than the access I had when I was in graduate school and better than I have currently as a standard ACM member. I hope I'm correct about that.
> better than the access I had when I was in graduate school
How did you function as a graduate student without access to conference proceedings?
> better than I have currently as a standard ACM member
I think that's only if you de-select the option for the library, which people often do if they have institutional access (which will be almost all academic and industrial researchers I guess.)
> How did you function as a graduate student without access to conference proceedings?
I don't remember too many instances where a paper I wanted could not be found (read into that whatever you like), but I do remember hitting some annoying limits in my institution's access.
> I think that's only if you de-select the option for the library, which people often do if they have institutional access (which will be almost all academic and industrial researchers I guess.)
I only recently signed up., but I think it's possible we're not talking about the same thing. If my base level membership has access to all conference proceedings without additional charge - which seems to be what your comment is implying - it's a pleasant surprise.
