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Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library

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first seen Jul 28, 2026 · last seen Aug 2, 2026 · published Jul 28, 2026

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2026-07-29
"Give LLMs access to the ACM library" sounds like it solves retrieval. It doesn't. The model still has to read every paper it cites as input tokens. At scale, that's not a research assistant — it's a line item. Access is step one. The billing is the product.