ACM Digital Library Archive Is Open Access With 50 Years of Published Records (associationsnow.com) 14
As part of its landmark campaign for its 75th anniversary celebrations, the Association for Computing Machinery (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," writes Ernie Smith via Associations Now. From the report: 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." While the organization is still working through its open-access effort, it saw an opportunity to make its "backfile" of materials available, timed to the organization's 75th anniversary. "It's nice to link it to the 75th celebration year in general, but the emphasis was really coming from what it takes to get the Digital Library fully open," she said. "All those seminal articles from years ago can be made available to everyone."
The collection has some of what you'd expect: technical documents, magazine articles, and research papers, many of which highlight the history of computing -- for example, one of the first documents ACM ever published was about the groundbreaking UNIVAC system. But the treasure trove also goes to the heart of ACM itself, with a number of pieces related to the creation of the organization and how it was run, with in-depth records from early conferences included within the digital library.
The opening of ACM's digital backfile is one of many components to marking the organization's 75th anniversary -- the largest of which, a celebratory panel, will take place June 10 as a hybrid event that will bring together well-known figures in computer science, such as noted social media scholar danah boyd of Microsoft Research, Stanford University's Jure Leskovec, and Google chief economist Hal Varian. ACM is also highlighting its history on its social media channels, including by showcasing notable papers within its archives.
The collection has some of what you'd expect: technical documents, magazine articles, and research papers, many of which highlight the history of computing -- for example, one of the first documents ACM ever published was about the groundbreaking UNIVAC system. But the treasure trove also goes to the heart of ACM itself, with a number of pieces related to the creation of the organization and how it was run, with in-depth records from early conferences included within the digital library.
The opening of ACM's digital backfile is one of many components to marking the organization's 75th anniversary -- the largest of which, a celebratory panel, will take place June 10 as a hybrid event that will bring together well-known figures in computer science, such as noted social media scholar danah boyd of Microsoft Research, Stanford University's Jure Leskovec, and Google chief economist Hal Varian. ACM is also highlighting its history on its social media channels, including by showcasing notable papers within its archives.
"A large portion" (Score:1)
"A large portion" can now be accessed.
What percentage of the complete archive in included in that "large portion" is undefined.
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What percentage of the complete archive in included in that "large portion" is undefined.
But which portion is - in the very next words of The Fine Summary:
They're opening the first fifty years of their archives to the public, apparently (according to TFS) leaving the most recent 15 years of stuff behind the "membership or pay" wall.
Far from an embracing of the publish-freely model. But freeing the first, foundatinal, 2/3 (by time, even though no doubt far less than by volume) is still a great thing.
Typo strikes again. (Score:2)
They're opening the first fifty years of their archives to the public, apparently (according to TFS) leaving the most recent 15 years ...
Typo, of course: the most recent 25 years. B-b
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And who knows, maybe they'll release the older papers for free later on - maybe they'll keeps the last 20 years under paywall, but as each year ticks by, they rele
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The the first doc mentioned on that page: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145... [acm.org] Has a PDF link that gives a download of this 0-byte file: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.... [acm.org]
I had no trouble downloading it to my Univac. Did you remember to set your teletype to the correct Baudot variant?
Confused figuring out how to get full free article (Score:3)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800009.808045 [acm.org]
However I seem to only get the Abstract when clicking on the PDF button.
Some other searches give me the full PDF so what am I doing wrong here?
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... I seem to only get the Abstract when clicking on the PDF button.
Some other searches give me the full PDF so what am I doing wrong here?
Maybe the database changes aren't fully in place yet?
the schmucks at the IEEE (Score:2)
should do something similar.
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ACM is small, IEEE is huge. IEEE is a giant moneymaking machine. They will never let their stuff be free.
1951? (Score:2)
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