ACM Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic literature covering computing and information technology. Published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), it provides access to journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and technical reports spanning the complete history of ACM publications. As of January 2026, the ACM Digital Library is fully open access, offering free basic access to its entire corpus of computing research. Programmatic access is available through web-based search endpoints, DOI-based content retrieval, citation export (BibTeX, EndNoteL, ACM Ref), and Premium tier bulk download and research analytics capabilities. The library also provides the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database extending beyond ACM publications to cover the broader computing literature.

ACM Digital Library publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Academic, Bibliographic Records, Citations, Computing, and Conference Proceedings.

ACM Digital Library’s developer surface includes documentation, authentication, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 12 more developer resources.

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32.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 5/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
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3 APIs

Academic Bibliographic Records Citations ComputingConference ProceedingsDOI Digital Library Journals Metadata Open Access Publications Research Scholarly

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 32.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17

Access Clarity 10.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 5/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ACM Digital Library Search API

The ACM Digital Library search endpoint allows programmatic querying of computing literature across ACM's full publication corpus. Queries are issued against the doSearch action...

ACM Digital Library Content Retrieval API

Individual publications, conference papers, and journal articles in the ACM Digital Library are accessible via persistent DOI-based URLs at dl.acm.org/doi/{doi}. ACM maintains D...

ACM Digital Library Citation Export API

The ACM Digital Library provides citation export functionality supporting BibTeX, EndNote, and ACM Reference format downloads for individual articles and bulk search result sets...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Acm Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Acm Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Acm Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Acm Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Acm Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

TrainingResources

TrainingResources

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

CorporatePricing

CorporatePricing

GovernmentPricing

AcademicPricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenAccess

OpenAccess

Source (apis.yml)

aid: acm
name: ACM Digital Library
kind: company
description: The ACM Digital Library is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic
  literature covering computing and information technology. Published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), it
  provides access to journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and technical reports spanning the complete
  history of ACM publications. As of January 2026, the ACM Digital Library is fully open access, offering free basic access
  to its entire corpus of computing research. Programmatic access is available through web-based search endpoints, DOI-based
  content retrieval, citation export (BibTeX, EndNoteL, ACM Ref), and Premium tier bulk download and research analytics capabilities.
  The library also provides the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database extending beyond
  ACM publications to cover the broader computing literature.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/acm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/acm.png
tags:
- Academic
- Bibliographic Records
- Citations
- Computing
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI
- Digital Library
- Journals
- Metadata
- Open Access
- Publications
- Research
- Scholarly
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
access: Public
position: Producing
apis:
- aid: acm:acm-search-api
  name: ACM Digital Library Search API
  description: The ACM Digital Library search endpoint allows programmatic querying of computing literature across ACM's full
    publication corpus. Queries are issued against the doSearch action endpoint with parameters for full-text search terms,
    pagination (startPage, pageSize), and scope expansion. The endpoint returns HTML responses reflecting search results and
    supports access to ACM conference proceedings, journals, magazines, and the broader ACM Guide to Computing Literature.
    Institutional or ACM member authentication unlocks access to full-text content beyond open-access articles.
  humanURL: https://dl.acm.org/search/
  baseURL: https://dl.acm.org
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dl.acm.org/search/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/authentication
  tags:
  - Bibliographic Records
  - Computing
  - Conference Proceedings
  - Full-Text Search
  - Journals
  - Metadata
  - Publications
  - Research
  - Search
- aid: acm:acm-content-retrieval-api
  name: ACM Digital Library Content Retrieval API
  description: Individual publications, conference papers, and journal articles in the ACM Digital Library are accessible
    via persistent DOI-based URLs at dl.acm.org/doi/{doi}. ACM maintains DOI registration through CrossRef and operates its
    own DOI resolution service. As of January 2026, all ACM-published content is open access, making bibliographic metadata
    and many full-text articles freely available. The endpoint supports retrieval of article abstracts, author information,
    affiliation data, citation counts, and full-text PDF downloads where permitted.
  humanURL: https://dl.acm.org/
  baseURL: https://dl.acm.org
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libraries.acm.org/digital-library/platform-and-features
  - type: OpenAccess
    url: https://dl.acm.org/openaccess
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/authentication
  tags:
  - Articles
  - Content
  - DOI
  - Full Text
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  - Publications
  - Retrieval
  tags_raw:
  - Articles
  - Content
  - DOI
  - Full-Text
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  - Publications
  - Retrieval
- aid: acm:acm-citation-export-api
  name: ACM Digital Library Citation Export API
  description: The ACM Digital Library provides citation export functionality supporting BibTeX, EndNote, and ACM Reference
    format downloads for individual articles and bulk search result sets. Users can export individual citations from article
    pages or export all results from a search query. The export interface is accessible through the web UI and supports selecting
    individual items or all search results. BibTeX exports are compatible with reference managers including Mendeley and Zotero.
    Premium subscribers have access to enhanced citation tools and bulk export capabilities.
  humanURL: https://libraries.acm.org/training-resources/new-dl-features/citation-functions
  baseURL: https://dl.acm.org
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libraries.acm.org/training-resources/new-dl-features/citation-functions
  - type: ExportGuide
    url: https://libraries.acm.org/training-resources/new-dl-features/exporting-citations
  tags:
  - BibTeX
  - Citations
  - EndNote
  - Export
  - Metadata
  - Reference Management
  - Scholarly
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/acm-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/acm-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://dl.acm.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://libraries.acm.org/digital-library/platform-and-features
- type: Authentication
  url: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/authentication
- type: Pricing
  url: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access
- type: CorporatePricing
  url: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/corporate-pricing
- type: GovernmentPricing
  url: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/government/dl-pricing
- type: AcademicPricing
  url: https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/academic/dl-pricing
- type: OpenAccess
  url: https://dl.acm.org/openaccess
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/privacy-policy
- type: Blog
  url: https://cacm.acm.org/
- type: TrainingResources
  url: https://libraries.acm.org/training-resources
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/association-for-computing-machinery
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/TheOfficialACM
- type: Support
  url: https://dl.acm.org/contact
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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