The academic granting system is kind of complex now. But this is not the issue with ACM's position as the 'publisher' with copyright ownership to 'academic rese

The academic granting system is kind of complex now. But this is not the issue with ACM's position as the 'publisher' with copyright ownership to 'academic researchers' paper. I think there is need for AAAI, ACM, IEEE, SIAM, American Physics Society to open up their vast digital libraries to general public via internet, at the same time a business model for those organizations to be repository maintainers for the papers in the long run. (I think we need such organization to exists because all authors of academic papers eventually will leave academic due to death, retirement, working for industry that won't publish). So far I think no one has a good solution yet.