How the Association for Computing Machinery Is Opening the Doors to Its Archives

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https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-the-acm-digital-library-matters/

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It's way past time for ACM (and IEEE, etc.) to stop treating their digital libraries as cash cows to be milked for funding unrelated projects.

Hopefully open access mandates will bring this about sooner than 2025, but at least ACM seems to be finally moving in that direction, albeit slowly.