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# harvested from the provider. `method: generated` so the economics campaign may replace it with a
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method: generated
generated: '2026-06-13'
specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: ACM Digital Library
providerId: acm
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
tags:
  - Academic
  - Bibliographic Records
  - Citations
  - Computing
  - Conference Proceedings
  - DOI
  - Digital Library
  - Journals
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  - Publications
  - Research
  - Scholarly
description: >-
  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.
plans:
  - id: acm-basic
    name: Basic (Open Access)
    type: free
    description: >-
      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.
    entries:
      - label: Article Access
        description: Access to open-access ACM publications and bibliographic metadata
        name: article_access
        type: quota
        metric: articles
        limit: unlimited
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://dl.acm.org
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Citation Export
        description: Export citations in BibTeX, EndNote, or ACM Ref format
        name: citation_export
        type: quota
        metric: exports
        limit: unlimited
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://dl.acm.org
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - type: FeatureList
        value:
          - Full-text open-access articles
          - Bibliographic metadata search
          - Citation export (BibTeX, EndNote, ACM Ref)
          - DOI-based content retrieval
          - Basic article search

  - id: acm-premium
    name: Digital Library Premium
    type: paid
    description: >-
      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.
    entries:
      - label: Academic Tier 1
        description: Institutions publishing 75+ articles annually
        name: academic_tier_1
        type: flat
        metric: annual_subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://dl.acm.org
        unit: 1
        price: '95000.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Academic Tier 10
        description: Institutions publishing 0-3 articles annually
        name: academic_tier_10
        type: flat
        metric: annual_subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://dl.acm.org
        unit: 1
        price: '6000.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Government Single Site License
        description: 2025 list price for government institutions (single site)
        name: government_site_license
        type: flat
        metric: annual_subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        domains:
          - https://dl.acm.org
        unit: 1
        price: '30675.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - 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)
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - free
  - subscription
  units: []
  plans:
  - name: Basic (Open Access)
    access: free
    model: free
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - other
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Digital Library Premium
    access: paid
    model: subscription
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - other
    periods:
    - year