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ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years of Published Records
- mark_l_watson 4y agoI just searched for something at random, selected the first search hit, and since I am no longer a member of the ACM, there was a $15 charge to read the article.
- yarapavan 4y agoAnnouncement: https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-the-acm-digital-library-matters/ https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-... ...as a part of its landmark campaign for its 75th anniversary celebrations, ACM is opening up a large portion of its archives, making the first 50 years of its published records—more than 117,500 documents dating from 1951 to 2000—accessible to the public without a login. * A paper from the inaugural issue of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software in 1975: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/355626.355636 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/355626.355636 * The UNIX time-sharing system by Ritchie & Thompson. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800009.808045 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800009.808045 * A Conversation with Steve Jobs. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/63334.63336 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/63334.63336 Edit: More info - In January 2020, ACM launched an ambitious five-year plan to transition the Association into an Open Access Publisher. The foundation of that plan is a new model called ACM Open, which asks research institutions around the world to underwrite the costs of publication for their affiliated authors. Over the past two years, nearly 200 research institutions have already signed on to ACM Open and ACM is fast approaching the first major milestone for the transition, when approximately 20% of ACM's newly published articles are Open Access upon publication in the ACM Digital Library. Source: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/5/260362-thanks-for-the-progress-to-date/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/5/260362-thanks-for-the-...
- aluminussoma 4y agoThe link for "The UNIX time-sharing system" only provides a 1-page PDF of the abstract. I believe the correct PDF is located at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361011.361061 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361011.361061 It wasn't clear to me by looking at the pages themselves. I hope usability will not be a huge issue and negate the benefit of this open access!
- shortformblog 4y agoHey, the author of the piece. For context here: I included the link to the 1973 abstract rather than the 1974 document because it was the first mention of UNIX in the ACM archive, which I made clear in the piece but got a little lost in the comment here.
- ArtWomb 4y ago50 years of SIGGRAPH, looking forward to it ;)
- dagmx 4y agoSort of. For most production related content in the ACM library, you'll still only get the abstracts.
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- musicale 4y agoSIGGRAPH is behind the times. SIGCOMM has been open access for years. It's a shame too since SIGGRAPH runs ACM's most popular conference(s) with many thousands of attendees and high registration fees ($875 "discounted" pregistration for a virtual conference? are you kidding?) and can almost certainly afford the negligible costs for digital publication. Well here's hoping we'll get real open access for everything by ... 2025. ;-/ Until then: google scholar, sci-hub, or donate your $99 to ACM.
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- WalterGR 4y agoIt would appear this isn't a time-limited thing: > Vicki L. Hanson, the group’s CEO, noted that the ACM Digital Library initiative is part of a broader effort to make its archives available via open access by 2025. > “Our goal is to have it open in a few years, but there’s very real costs associated with [the open-access work],” Hanson said. “We have models so that we can pay for it.”
- musicale 4y agoUSENIX has been open access for years. Some ACM conferences and journals (e.g. SIGCOMM/CCR) have been open access for several years. One step that ACM could take that wouldn't require any technical changes to their existing infrastructure would be to officially offer republication and redistribution rights to any non-commercial digital library including arxiv.org, archive.org, sci-hub, etc..
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoIs there a way to filter by number of reads popularity? Number of citations?
- webmaven 4y agoYes, search results can be sorted by citations.
- tokai 4y agoIts very nice that they made all those articles available. But it is definitely not 50 years of published records made Open Access. OA mirrors FOSS software in some ways and the users need many of the same freedoms. Just making them available to read with the same old copyright still attach is not enough. The Budapest Declaration from 2002 that defined OA for the first time states it very clearly: "By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/ https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/
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- wolverine876 4y agoGood points, but what is the copyright?
- taubek 4y agoAs a student I've often used their DL. I really had a bunch of great resources.
- freefaler 4y agoIt's sad that we still need scihub for the research already paid in many cases by the taxpayers. So scihub FTW!
- hazelnut-tree 4y agoThis is a treasure chest of computer-related papers from 1951 - 2000. The topics span the full breadth of computing, including topics that might not immediately come to mind. An example: I posted a 1984 paper about end-user documentation for all types of users (including developers) from the ACM archive. Despite the age of the paper, you'll recognise the questions about documentation even today. 'Those silly bastards': A report on some users' views of documentation (1984) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31003306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31003306
- maire 4y agoDocumentation and user interface face the same issues. The biggest mistake engineers make is to expose the internal workings of the software in ways irrelevant to the user. The biggest mistake marketing makes is to focus on upselling. I believe this is the reason why Google beat out Yahoo in the search space.
- khaledh 4y agoOriginal announcement thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30944881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30944881
- jdlyga 4y agoI'm an ACM member. I just searched, and it still costs $5 to read recent articles. And that's with a membership. But good on them for opening access to older materials.
- khaledh 4y agoI think your membership is just for the ACM itself, and doesn't include the Digital Library[0]. My membership includes the DL (for an extra $99/yr) and I have access to all recent articles. [0] https://www.acm.org/membership/membership-options https://www.acm.org/membership/membership-options
- haupt 4y agoDo we have to register on the site to get download access? I found something from 1963 I'd like to download but there's no download link[0]. I'm sure I must be making a mistake. I found the article through the dl.acm.org search engine. [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1147/rd.24.0289 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1147/rd.24.0289
- qbit42 4y agoThat's not published in an ACM venue, but that page has a link with the DOI, https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.24.0289 https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.24.0289, that takes you to the IEEE page with a download link.
- haupt 4y agoI appreciate you including the DOI link in your comment. I like the fact that ACM has released some articles but as someone not entirely familiar with all the different ACM publications I am unsure as to how to sufficiently limit my search query to find downloadable articles. Perhaps they will add a specific "open access" filter to their search (I unsuccessfully tried searching "open access" but perhaps none of the articles are indexed by their availability). Thank you very much.
- status200 4y agoAll of the articles that I have searched/browsed are requiring login / payment... am I missing something?
- muxneo 4y agoAn immense benefit to the technical community..thanks a lot
- flakiness 4y agoSo some people already posted now-accessible papers that worth a look. Here is my random pick: "A relational model of data for large shared data banks" [1] It's a defining paper for RDB data model. I think it's not a exaggeration to say all the RDB history starts here. (The history itself is covered not by acm but by ieee [2]). [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/362384.362685 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/362384.362685 [2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16074372884446179159&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16074372884446179...
- teloli 4y agoAnd interestingly enough such a landmark paper got rejected initially: http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/reject.html http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/reject.html
- nsajko 4y agoThis is a very interesting page. Could you provide some context for it? Are there more like it? What were the roles of Santini and Fang respectively in assembling the content?
- musesum 4y agoIn 1975, my high school's "Independent Science Study" class took a field trip to the Crerar Library at the U of Chicago[1]. In the stacks was a paper on AI that changed my life[2]. It was a 3 hour drive, each way. Now it takes 3 seconds. [1] https://goo.gl/maps/h3xCccBMQDBqQXhD7 https://goo.gl/maps/h3xCccBMQDBqQXhD7 [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1460833.1460840 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1460833.1460840
- ThomasBHickey 4y agoI worked as a librarian there in the early 70's. It was a different world!
- philiplu 4y agoNice - this means the May 1988 issue of CACM is freely available. That's notable because the cover article is Cliff Stoll's "Stalking the Wily Hacker" [1], with the material that later became his book "The Cuckoo's Egg". But I've still got the dead-tree version of that issue around somewhere in storage because of another article, by Andrew Appel and Guy Jacobson, "The World's Fastest Scrabble Algorithm" [2]. I coded that up back then, in Pascal IIRC, and had a blast doing so. [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/42411.42412 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/42411.42412 [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/42411.42420 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/42411.42420
- dwringer 4y agoWow, this is great! I'm happy to see "Connection Machine Lisp: Fine-Grained Parallel Symbolic Processing"[0] in here, free at last. I actually bought that paper in my undergrad CS days just because it's so intriguing (IMHO). [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/319838.319870 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/319838.319870
- robomartin 4y agoAh, cool, a paper I wrote back in 1985 is now open access. It only took 37 years. Well, at least I can send my kid (recent CS grad) a link and he can laugh at what was doing almost 40 years ago. Robotics then wasn't what it is today!
- ghostpepper 4y agoYou should link to the paper so we can all laugh!
- robomartin 4y agoI don't think I could survive such a calamitous event in my life. I was young and thought I knew a lot more than I actually did. My Physics professor at the time encouraged me to publish the paper based on some work I had been doing in robotics under his supervision. This was the 1980's, you couldn't go buy Arduinos and cheap I/O boards, etc. I had to design everything and build every single board by hand (wire-wrapped, if anyone knows what that is). It was a ridiculous amount of work but it was awesome. Oh, yeah, and machine my own parts, no 3D printing! What's interesting is that I actually got a meeting with and an employment offer from a large multinational corporation based on this paper. So, not horrible, at least in the context of the times.
- metaphor 4y ago> ACM has opened more than 117,500 articles published between 1951 and the end of 2000, during the first 50 years of its publishing program. Up to end of 2000, so it appears there's still residual value in holding Lifetime Membership[1]. This is nevertheless a huge leap in the right direction. Here's to hoping ACM applies some funds toward maintaining the DL mobile app, which hasn't seen an update in like 5 years. [1] https://www.acm.org/membership/lifetime-membership https://www.acm.org/membership/lifetime-membership
- wrycoder 4y agoNow, if we could only get the IEEE onboard with open access.