To help graduating students make the transition to their professional careers by providing continuous learning opportunities, ACM offers a special ACM Professional Membership at the low rate of $49 USD (regularly $99).  This one-year-only transition rate for recent graduates includes all the benefits of Professional Membership.

Transitioning to ACM Professional Membership provides:

• A subscription to ACM's newly redesigned flagship publication Communications of the ACM, in print and online - www.acm.org/publications/cacm


• Full access to 600 online books from Safari^® Books Online, featuring leading publishers including O'Reilly, and 500 online books from Books24x7^® - http://pd.acm.org/books/books.cfm


• Full access to over 3,500 online courses in multiple languages and 1,100 virtual labs - http://pd.acm.org/cp_home.cfm


• Discounts on ACM Special Interest Group conference registrations; SIG conferences are ACM's #1 benefit - http://www.acm.org/conferences
  


• A subscription to the ACM Digital Library at only $50 USD, a full 50% off the regular rate - http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
  


• Full access to ACM's Career & Job Center, powered by JobTarget^®, featuring a wide variety of highly targeted technology jobs, including hundreds of corporate job postings often not seen on commercial sites - http://campus.acm.org/careercenter/


• The opportunity to e-mentor an ACM Student Member (for 20 minutes weekly) through MentorNet®; professionals gain valuable managerial skills through mentoring - http://www.acm.org/membership/student/mentornet



• Full member access to the acmqueue website featuring blogs, online discussions and debates, plus video and audio content - http://queue.acm.org/


• Technical Interest Profile Alerts provide ACM professional members with monthly email alerts pointing them to articles in the ACM Digital Library, conferences, online courses, and publications, targeted to their technical interests - https://www.myacm.org/dashboard.cfm


• The opportunity to engage with the ACM community by recommending a member for an Advanced Member Grade, as well as self-nominate for Senior Member status - http://awards.acm.org


• An assigned Personal Customer Service Representative


• A free "acm.org" email forwarding account with Postini spam filtering 


• A professional network of over 97,000 fellow ACM members 


• The opportunity to vote in ACM elections - exercising your franchise and having a say in who represents ACM

Recent graduates can take advantage of this special transition offer by using ACM's convenient online renewal process, or by contacting ACM Customer Service at acmhelp@acm.org, or 1-800-342-6626 (US and Canada) or +1-212-626-0500 (Global).