[Eril-l] Question about ACM Digital Library

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Hi,
If you do not "subscribe" to ACM in any way then you will have access to
the free-to-use, Basic interface, along with all the content. The Basic
interface *is* very basic and has limited functionality (e.g. in basic you
can't search certain fields or even filter by date; it only has quick
search functionality). The differences are listed at
https://dl.acm.org/premium. Of note....you would no longer have access to The
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
<https://libraries.acm.org/digital-library/acm-guide-to-computing-literature>
if
you no longer "subscribe", which may be considered crucial to your users.

Hope that helps,
Sunshine

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Sunshine Carter
Director, Collection Strategy & eResource Management | University Libraries
| lib.umn.edu
University of Minnesota | umn.edu | 612-625-5615
she, her, hers


On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion
list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:

> Hi ERL-L,
>
>
>
>   We are cutting our library budget again here at Winona State. It was
> brought to my attention that the ACM Digital Library has announced (
> https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess) that they are now 100% Open
> Access. Does this mean that we can discontinue our license? (The current
> license includes funding for page charges for publishing in ACM titles, but
> it turns out that our CS faculty don’t publish in ACM titles, so that is
> not an issue for us.)
>
>
>
>   Has anyone else looked into this?
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Vernon Leighton
>
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> Winona State University Library
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> P.O. Box 5838
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