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Posted by leglock 7 hours ago

ACM Is Now Open Access(www.acm.org)
291 points | 44 commentspage 2
jhallenworld 5 hours ago|
Imagine a world where you can click on references in your paper and have them immediately come up, like the rest of the web. This can be done today:

Always provide a DOI-style link, for example: https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/30/2/001

These can be easily changed to actual working links with a simple browser substitution rule: replace the "doi.org" with "sci-hub.se" or whatever.

colesantiago 6 hours ago||
This is a great start, but it is not enough.

We need to keep pushing for other journals, IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, to be open access and free for all.

scott_s 6 hours ago||
IEEE may do it, as it's a professional organization. That is, they're a non-profit dedicated to the furtherance of the field. Being open access fits their mission, and the costs can be handled by dues and fees. Springer and Elsevier are for-profit publishers. I don't know how if they can have an open-access business model.
logifail 6 hours ago||
I'm not sure "open access" in this context actually means, err, that the access is actually open.
emil-lp 6 hours ago||
What do you mean? Open access means exactly what it says.
SkySkimmer 7 hours ago||
and at the same time paywalled metadata https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restore-fully-free-and-o...
bugglebeetle 6 hours ago|
This is lame, but always remember that OpenAlex exists and is completely free:

https://openalex.org/works?page=1&filter=primary_location.so...

agumonkey 6 hours ago||
Kudos. I wonder how long it took to 1) decide this move, 2) actually migrate their system
ModernMech 6 hours ago||
This is great news and really makes me want to submit to ACM over IEEE.
rgreekguy 6 hours ago|
They are both hosted on the same platform, which is owned by John Wiley & Sons.
ModernMech 5 hours ago||
But IEEE is not open access entirely now too, right? Or am I misunderstanding?
0xba9f0 3 hours ago|
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