# ACM Digital Library

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/acm/  
**Website:** https://dl.acm.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 32.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 48.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **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...

## Security (2)

- **Acm Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Acm Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Acm Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Academic, Bibliographic Records, Citations, Computing, Conference Proceedings, DOI, Digital Library, Journals, Metadata, Open Access, Publications, Research, Scholarly

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/acm/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.