Restore Fully Free and Open Access to the ACM Digital Library

Somdip Dey

As a researcher in the field of computing and AI I fully support full access to ACM Open.

Norbert Gerfelder

Closed data services can't be Premium Features!

Actions like this leave one wondering who the ACM's real audience is. Whom does it claim to serve? Because when the people whom it ostensibly serves are dis-served, and the ACM refuses to even engage with them, it really makes you wonder.

Professor, Computer Science, UC Irvine

Open access is the foundation of good science

As a Computer Science researcher, the idea of citation counts and other basic metadata being paywalled is shocking to me, when other journals such as IEEE make common metadata such as this publicly available for even their paywalled articles. This metadata is crucial for knowing whether a certain set of articles is worth citing or engaging with to a deeper level, and the lack of this metadata severely impacts researchers who are not fortunate enough to have an institution paying for access to this data.

The best publication forums today are becoming open access since they will also get reads and citations. This creates strong, thriving, innovative, engaging communities. The OA to prior publications is the foundation for such a future.

The way ACM is approaching open access is also outrageous, huge fees for institutions, per-article fees that are insanely high.

I personally subscribe to the DL because I understand the need for financial viability of the DL. However, taking features away that were available to the community before open access seems counter productive.

I understand the need to generate enough revenue to keep the DL afloat. But surely there's a way to do that without crippling searchability. Do we really want to encourage everyone to use Google Scholar instead?

I'm an ACM member and this is just a bad decision from any perspective I can imagine.

The change breaks author visibility, recognition, and findability and severely limits the ability of the public to find articles. This is the opposite of the Open Access spirit.

Free and open ACM DL access and features for all!

Download counts and citation counts are the most basic metrics that should be publicly available

ACM Fellow and lifetime member.

As a lifetime member and volunteer I am deeply disappointed by the one-sided reduction of services to members to raise additional money.

I would prefer that comments be kept off the DL entirely, regardless of paywall.

Fully support this. Open access must include metadata and discovery tools. Please remove the new DL paywall.

I am in support of fully free and open access to the DL.

Restore fully fee Open Access to digital ACM