Acm Plans Pricing
Plans and pricing for ACM Digital Library access. As of January 2026, ACM is fully open access, offering a free Basic tier with public access to its complete corpus of computing research. A Premium subscription tier provides advanced research tools including AI-assisted search, bulk downloads, citation analytics, and institutional collaboration features. Institutional pricing (Academic, Government, Corporate) varies by tier based on publishing activity, annual revenue, or staff count.
Acm Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for ACM Digital Library on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering free and paid tiers, with named plans including Basic (Open Access), Digital Library Premium.
Tagged areas include Academic, Bibliographic Records, Citations, Computing, and Conference Proceedings.
Plans
Free public access to ACM's complete corpus of published computing research. Available to all users without registration as of January 2026 when ACM became fully open access. Provides article abstracts, bibliographic metadata, and full-text access to open-access articles. Does not include the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, AI-assisted search, bulk downloads, or advanced analytics.
- {"type" => "FeatureList", "value" => ["Full-text open-access articles", "Bibliographic metadata search", "Citation export (BibTeX, EndNote, ACM Ref)", "DOI-based content retrieval", "Basic article search"]}
Premium institutional subscription providing full access to the ACM Digital Library plus advanced research tools. Includes AI-assisted search, citation tools, research analytics, bulk downloads, saved searches, alerts, personalized recommendations, collaboration features, and full integration with institutional profiles. Automatically included with ACM Open (Read and Publish) institutional subscriptions.
- {"type" => "FeatureList", "value" => ["Full ACM Digital Library corpus", "ACM Guide to Computing Literature", "AI-assisted search and discovery", "Bulk downloads", "Citation tools and analytics", "Research impact metrics (Altmetric, citation trends)", "Saved searches and email alerts", "Personalized recommendations", "Institutional profile integration", "Collaboration features", "Text and data mining (research/educational use)"]}
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