Restore Fully Free and Open Access to the ACM Digital Library
323 Comments
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Samson Abramsky
10 months ago
ACM Fellow
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Paul Beame
10 months ago
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As a former member of ACM Council, I am appalled! This is antithetical to the primary role of ACM, which is to serve the Computer Science community. It reverses more than a decade of progress in openness that began well before the commitment to ACM Open.
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Andreas Krall
10 months ago
I was conference chair many times financing ACM and now I have restricted access.
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Bonnie Webber
10 months ago
As an academic who teaches students how to find the information they need, I'm dismayed by the ACM putting the most important features of its Digital Library behind a paywall.
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Simone Martini
10 months ago
ACM member, professor of Computer Science
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Dov Gabbay
10 months ago
Please be decent. It is worthwhike in the long term!
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Clark Barrett
10 months ago
ACM Fellow
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Daniel Berry
10 months ago
This is hardly open access. Sheesh
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Reinhard Wilhelm
10 months ago
This initiative against a new paywall has my full support!
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Daniel Jackson
10 months ago
ACM Fellow
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Paolo Ciancarini
10 months ago
ACM member
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William Gasarch
10 months ago
Science makes progress only if it has open-access!
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Alan Fekete
10 months ago
I am ACM Distinguished Member
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Insu Yun
10 months ago
I think it’s worth revisiting the spirit of ACM Open
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Anonymous
10 months ago
Free and democratic freedom of knowledge sharing
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victor yodaiken
10 months ago
I'm sure this effort is costing more than it is raising.
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Moshe Vardi
10 months ago
I have been involved in getting Rice to sign on ACM Open, This new ttiering of the DL comes as a total surprise to me.
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Joao Pinheiro
10 months ago
Ex acm member
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Phillip Rhodes
10 months ago
This is ridiculous. I thought ACM had taken a step in a positive direction and now all of a sudden I'm questioning if I should continue to remain an ACM member at all.
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Erez Zadok
10 months ago
As Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), I was very disappointed that even an EiC couldn't get access to these meta-data stats (unless I or my institution pays for Premium access). Such meta-data as cite/download counts should be made freely available: IMHO charging for it is self-destructive to the ACM, because these stats *help* promote ACM's own publications.
ACM Fellow
As a former member of ACM Council, I am appalled! This is antithetical to the primary role of ACM, which is to serve the Computer Science community. It reverses more than a decade of progress in openness that began well before the commitment to ACM Open.
I was conference chair many times financing ACM and now I have restricted access.
As an academic who teaches students how to find the information they need, I'm dismayed by the ACM putting the most important features of its Digital Library behind a paywall.
ACM member, professor of Computer Science
Please be decent. It is worthwhike in the long term!
ACM Fellow
This is hardly open access. Sheesh
This initiative against a new paywall has my full support!
ACM Fellow
ACM member
Science makes progress only if it has open-access!
I am ACM Distinguished Member
I think it’s worth revisiting the spirit of ACM Open
Free and democratic freedom of knowledge sharing
I'm sure this effort is costing more than it is raising.
I have been involved in getting Rice to sign on ACM Open, This new ttiering of the DL comes as a total surprise to me.
Ex acm member
This is ridiculous. I thought ACM had taken a step in a positive direction and now all of a sudden I'm questioning if I should continue to remain an ACM member at all.
As Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), I was very disappointed that even an EiC couldn't get access to these meta-data stats (unless I or my institution pays for Premium access). Such meta-data as cite/download counts should be made freely available: IMHO charging for it is self-destructive to the ACM, because these stats *help* promote ACM's own publications.