Subscriptions/Access: Academic Libraries/Consortia

The ACM Digital Library is one of the highest quality, most affordably priced scholarly databases available today. Over the past decade, ACM has established a reputation for fair and transparent pricing and practices that is the cornerstone of our relationship with the academic community.

The easiest and most affordable way for academic institutions to obtain access to the Digital Library is by participating in one of the many academic library consortia that ACM works with worldwide. Significant volume discounts are available to participating libraries and ACM actively works with these consortia (directly and via subscription agents) in virtually every region throughout the world.

ACM partners with established academic library consortia to provide DL access to thousands of academic libraries in countries all around the world. Below is a full list of participating consortia.

If you are interested in learning more about how you can access the ACM DL via one of these library consortia, please contact us at [email protected].

Consortium Name Area(s)
Amigos Library Services Inc USA
ANKOS Turkey
B-oN Consortium of Portugal FCCN Portugal
BIBSAM Consortium Sweden
Boston Library Consortium BLC (via Lyrasis) USA
C3 - Czech CompSci Consortium Czech Republic
California Digital Library USA
CAUL Australia
Chile Consortium Chila
Colombia Consortium Colombia
Consortia Canada Canada
Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana Ghana
Consortium of the Swiss Academic Libraries Switzerland
Costa Rica Consortium Costa Rica
CRUI-CARE Area Risorse Elettroniche Italy
CSUC Library Consortium Spain
Cyprus Academic Library Consortium CALC Cyprus
DRAA Consortium China
Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Centre DRDO India
EBSCO Brazil, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Latvia, North America, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
Ecuador Consortium Ecuador
ELEKTRON Belgium
eSS Consortium India
Estonian Libraries Network Consortium ELNET Estonia
FinELib Consortium Finland
FIZ Karlsruhe Germany
Florida Virtual Campus FLVC (via Lyrasis) USA
Greater Western Library Alliance GWLA USA
HeBIS-Konsortium Germany
Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL Link Consortium) Greece
Hong Kong Consortium Hong Kong
IG Knowledge Services Ltd. (iGroup Taiwan) Taiwan
IReL Consortium Ireland
Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for e-Resources JUSTICE Japan
KERIS South Korea
Kooperation E-Medien Osterreich KEMO Austria
Lithuanian Research Library Consortium Lithuania
LYRASIS USA
Malaysia Consortium Malaysia
MALMAD Israel Center for Digital Information Services Israel
Maryland Digital Library (via Lyrasis) USA
Midwest Collaborative for Library Services MCLS USA
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology MCIT India
Minitex USA
NERL Consortium/ Center for Research Libraries CRL USA
OhioLINK USA
Orbis Cascade Alliance USA
PALCI Consortium USA
Peru Consortium Peru
PT Ina Publikatama (Indonesia Consortium) Indonesia
Publiciencia Ltda Colombia
Royal Danish Library Denmark
SANLiC South Africa
Scottish Higher Education Digital Library SHEDL Scotland
Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research Norway
Singapore Consortium Singapore
Spain Consortium Spain
Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium USA
Thailand Consortium - Comm on Higher Education Thailand
UK Higher Education Institutions UK HEI UK
VALE Consortium USA
VIP Consortium Philippines
VIVA USA
Wisconsin Library Services WiLS USA

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