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"I think we could do a lot better publicizing our work to encourage more people to think about our problems" One step would be to tear down the paywall that ke
by juliendorra 12y ago
"I think we could do a lot better publicizing our work to encourage more people to think about our problems"
One step would be to tear down the paywall that keeps decades of super-interesting computer science research locked up. I'm looking at you, ACM.
(Paywalls really limit access from people non-affiliated to any subscribing institutions, and even for affiliated people, it might be that slightly annoying barrier that make them not bother if they don't really need to)
- lemi 12y agoyour reply is dead on! It's not only ACM but pretty much all other publishers (ieee, springer, ...). What makes me angry is that all those research papers were in most cases funded by tax payers' money. Anyone remembers Aaron Swartz?
- j2kun 12y agoInterestingly, some of the more theoretical conferences have started to break off from ACM/IEEE and become independent. See, for example, the computational complexity conference[1] which is now completely independent. [1]: http://computationalcomplexity.org/ http://computationalcomplexity.org/
- e28eta 12y agoACM is discussing removing the paywall, but they don't seem to have the final solution figured out yet. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/11/179834-dealing-with-the-deep-long-term-challenges-facing-acm-part-i/fulltext http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/11/179834-dealing-with-th...