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Restore Fully Free and Open Access to the ACM Digital Library

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Phil Nelson
8 months ago

Long time ACM member. Free and open access is of great value to me.

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Tom Lyon
8 months ago

ACM member for *many* years.

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Mireille Blay-Fornarino
8 months ago

I agree with the petition.

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Khrystyna Vasylevska
8 months ago

Not ok!

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Dan Cross
8 months ago

As an ACM Life Member, I am extremely disappointed by this turn of events. A valuable research tool has been cut off from citizen scientists, independent researchers, and working programmers and engineers: authors cannot even see their own profile page. Immediate restoration of metadata access is a must.

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Labbe Cyril
8 months ago

Pr. Computer Science, Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, France

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Míċeál Tyre
8 months ago

I don't think this is a cash grab, I think it is the corporate monster trying to block the unfettered from knowledge that might benefit all mankind. That's worse than a cash grab.

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Antony Hosking
8 months ago

ACM Distinguished Scientist and Life Member

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Michele Albano
8 months ago

It is quite hypocritical. ACM introduced APCs for all conference papers, which makes publishing papers more expensive, justifying it with the Open Access transition, but then they set up this paywall.

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Arnold Robbins
8 months ago

I agree with this petition.

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Anonymous
8 months ago

Can't even do proper literature review without paying now

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Samir Chopra
8 months ago

Science doesn't work without open access.

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Joost Joosten
8 months ago

Open access

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Arjen P de Vries
8 months ago

ACM must support Open Science and not work against it.

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Gilles Brassard
8 months ago

Free and sustainable science depends on open access for everyone. Denying it is intolerable, especially when paywalled data was provided by unpaid volunteers!

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Bruno Buchberger
8 months ago

Very important initiative!

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Robert Gezelter
8 months ago

"Open" behind a paywall is a bit of a contradiction. As someone who has spent essentially their entire career outside of large organizations, except for undergraduate and graduate school, paywalls are a significant expense and impair non-institutionally affiliated researchers and scholars.

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Jesse de Vasconcelos Jr
8 months ago

Sign this petition

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Sandro Schulze
8 months ago

The behavior of ACM is insane and not tolerable!

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Stefan Neumann
8 months ago

I am an ACM member and believe that the ACM should restore fully free and open access to all DL features that have lately been paywalled.