ACM's Policies and Procedures
ACM's policies and procedures promoting standards of conduct for the computing field, addressing the following areas:
ACM Constitution
Code of Ethics
- ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
- Using the ACM Code of Ethics
- Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (includes multiple language translations)
Elections
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- Roles and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing
- ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism
- ACM Policy on Reviewer Anonymity
- Copyright Policy
- Fax or Electronic Copyright Forms Policy
- Viability Review Process for ACM Publications
- Including Ancillary Material in Digital Library
- Editor-in-Chief Appointment Policy
- Policy for Appeals - Manuscript Handling
- Policy on Retention of Paper Files
- Publishing Non-SIG Conference Proceedings
- Terms of Usage - Digital Library
- Access to non Digital Library Subscribers Policy
- Turing Award printed in CACM Policy
- Quality of Refereed Electronic Publications
- Recording Publication Dates for Electronic-Only Publications
- Conflict of Interest Policy for Papers Authored by ACM Editors-in-Chief
- Joint-Publishing Agreements for Track I Publications
- ACM-Branded Facility Policy
- Policy on Pre-Publication Evaluation
- ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions
ACM Case Studies
Written by leading domain experts for software engineers, ACM Case Studies provide an in-depth look at how software teams overcome specific challenges by implementing new technologies, adopting new practices, or a combination of both. Often through first-hand accounts, these pieces explore what the challenges were, the tools and techniques that were used to combat them, and the solution that was achieved.

Why I Belong to ACM
Hear from Bryan Cantrill, vice president of engineering at Joyent, Ben Fried chief information officer at Google, and Theo Schlossnagle, OmniTI founder on why they are members of ACM.