About the ACM Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:

  • The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.
  • A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
  • The ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database focused exclusively on the field of computing.
  • A richly interlinked set of connections among authors, works, institutions, and specialized communities.
  • The ACM Digital Library Board, oversees the design, operations and direction of the ACM Digital Library and supporting technology platforms.


For publishing information on a specific ACM published paper for a legal case, please submit your request to the Director of Publications at [email protected]

Bibliometrics

ACM People

ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life‐long learning, career development, and professional networking.

Crossmark

ACM launched CrossRef's Crossmark, December 28, 2022. The Crossmark button gives readers quick and easy access to the current status of a published work, including any corrections, retractions, or updates to that work. For additional information, please see the ACM Digital Library's CrossMark policy page.

Browser Support

ACM Digital Library has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for HTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in the latest stable versions of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Opera. For older browsers, visual design may be slightly compromised but all content will be readable, and features will function as intended. The site can also be accessed on tablet and mobile devices, and a selection of pages are optimized for those devices.

Digital Library Content Preservation

ACM’s Digital Library content is preserved for future generations of researchers through partnerships with Portico and CLOCKSS. Portico ensures that the full-text content of the DL will transition to new formats, providing a smooth transition for users, and guaranteeing that the most important computing research is perpetually available. CLOCKSS uses Archive Nodes housed at libraries selected to be the custodians of the archived content. These agreements enable ACM to meet a growing demand in the library community for a trusted, reliable third-party archive, and to ensure that digital collections remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students.

The ACM Digital Library archive will be release to the public based on either of the following trigger events:

  • ACM is no longer in Business – where ACM is no longer in business or is no longer in the business of publishing or providing access to previously published works.
  • Catastrophic Failure to provide access to the Digital Library: - ACM has stopped providing access to published works for a period, determined by contract (Portico 90 days; CLOCKSS 6 months), due to technical difficulties or any business interruption, bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, or business failure.
  • Title(s) cease publication and ACM no longer provides access to the publication archive in the ACM Digital Library.
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