They are, though. This announcement is about CACM becoming fully open access, but it's also a bit of a "progress report" on opening up the archive.
>> By the end of 2023, approximately 40% of the ~26,000 articles ACM publishes annually were being published Open Access utilizing the ACM Open model. As ACM has progressed toward this goal, it has increasingly opened large parts of the ACM Digital Library, including more than 100,000 articles published between 1951–2000. It is ACM’s plan to open its entire archive of over 600,000 articles when the transition to full Open Access is complete.
I thought they weren’t opening it up until 2026? Anything published now worth reading is open access, or can easily be retrieved by googling from somewhere else, so that isn’t much of a concern.
They are, though. This announcement is about CACM becoming fully open access, but it's also a bit of a "progress report" on opening up the archive.
>> By the end of 2023, approximately 40% of the ~26,000 articles ACM publishes annually were being published Open Access utilizing the ACM Open model. As ACM has progressed toward this goal, it has increasingly opened large parts of the ACM Digital Library, including more than 100,000 articles published between 1951–2000. It is ACM’s plan to open its entire archive of over 600,000 articles when the transition to full Open Access is complete.