ACM Digital Library 2020 torrent

The ACM digital library is arguably the most important collection of computer science literature in existence. It covers almost the entire history of the field and includes many of the most influential papers dating from the 1950s to today.

This archive contains a total of 487,386 full-text articles, totaling 519 GiB. It was compiled in June 2020 based on the subset of articles in the digital library which have full-text PDF versions available.

All content and metadata in the archive was obtained entirely from publicly-accessible parts of the digital library that ACM had explicitly stated were available for free access and download.

The articles are organized into a series of .zip files, each containing 1,000 PDF files named based on the article's DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The included sqlite database contains all relevant metadata including title, authors, publication date, and the journal/conference in which the article appeared. Abstracts are also included where available. Consult the database schema for details about how the metadata is organized.

A sample Python program is included that serves as a demonstration of how the database can be used, and as a primitive but functional means of browsing the collection. It exposes a local HTTP server providing a web interface to browse the available issues and articles, including viewing the PDF documents contained in the zip files.