Welcome to the information server for ACM SIGIR!

Administrative Information

• How to join
• Officers
• Membership survey
• SIGIR Program Review (presented February, 1995)

Available Information Retrieval Resources

• Upcoming Events. Includes related conferences, calls, advance programs, etc.
• Past Events.
• Conference Proceedings.
  • Search using simple boolean expressions or a list of keywords.
  • Browse the tables of contents by year.
• SIGIR Forum. The SIG's periodical.
• Funding Opportunities. Funding opportunities with IR aspects.

Other Useful Information Sources

• Other IR-related SIGs' info servers
  • SIGCHI (Computer & Human Interaction)
  • SIGGRAPH (Computer Graphics)
  • SIGLINK (Hypertext / Hypermedia)
  • SIGMOD (Management of Data)
  • SIGOIS (Office Information Systems)

• Other professional society info servers
  • ACM Gopher Server and Web Server
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society)
  • IEEE Gopher Server and Web Server
  • SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

• Other university information resources
  • University of Dortmund information server
  • University of Hamburg IDOM-Web server
  • University of Massachusetts Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
  • University of Virginia
    • Selected resources from the library's electronic centers
    • Internet access to SGML textual analysis resources
  • Virginia Tech
    • Digital Library Sourcebook
    • Digital Library: Gross Structure and Requirements (Report from a Workshop)

• Bibliographic resources
  • A Collection of Computer Science Bibliographes Available on the Internet
  • CMU On-line CS bibliographes
  • Graz University: Gary Perlman's HCI bibliography
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Database

• Books
  • C. J. van Rijsbergen, Information Retrieval, Second Edition Butterworths, London, 1979.
  • Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet

• Image resources
  • FS Consulting: Smithsonian Image Database
  • The Clearinghouse of Image Databases in Libraries from the University of Arizona
  • An Art and Graphics Directory from the University of Washington

• Resource Discovery and Networking Resources
  • The Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
  • The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Home Page
  • The Knowledge Discovery Mine

• Technical Report Services
  • Dienst server at Cornell University
  • UCSTRI: Unified Computer Science Technical Report Index
  • WATERS: Wide Area TEchnical Report Service
  • Technical Report Sites
    • GTE TRs on Distributed Object Management
    • On-line CS Tech Reports list maintained by CMU CS

• Sources for IR Software
  • Source code from the book Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, edited by William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Prentice-Hall, 1992).
  • SMART source code and IR test collections
  • WorldWideWeb software
  • Hyper-G: software

• Government agencies and labs
  • NSF's STIS - Science and Technology Information System
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NASA Network Application and Info Ctr
  • NIST gopher server; WWW server. A special Mosaic page is also available.
  • National Geophysical Data Center GOLD: Geophysical On-Line Data
  • Other U.S. Government Gopher Servers (from NSF STIS)

• Online publications
  • Internaut. an online magazine for internet users
  • Cyberkind. an html magazine with non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and art
  • Electronic Journals (from UCSB)
  • Electronic Serials: CICnet union catalog
  • IRList: a searchable ftp archive of the information retrieval newsletter

• Other online information
  • "What's New", from NCSA
  • Mosaic WWW HTML HTTP Survey Results, from GaTech. Statistics and demographics on internet usage from the Jan 94 survey.
  • InterNIC. This is a a good source of information about the Internet and network standards.
  • HPCwire. This is a "free commercial" service from ANS, containing information about high performance computing.
  • Network Starting Points, maintained by NCSA
  • Global Network Navigator, from O'Reilly and Associates