“Dear Members of the Computing Community,
We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026 , all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access . This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more reusable.”
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It’s amazing this took this long.
Some years ago I was writing an article on Mellon Optical Memory, and the only article I could find was in ACM from the 1950s. ACM charged 14.95 for a PDF of and article on a system that was never used and half a century old.
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