Open Access: ACM Adopts Goal of “Opening” ACM Digital Library in Next Five Years
The announcement was made in a tweet (below) from ACM President, Cherri Pancake.
From April-June of this year, ACM provided open access to the ACM Digital Library.
See Also: “ACM, SIGCHI, and the Economics of Open Access Publishing” (Jan. 19, 2020)
Today, in my last email to @TheOfficialACM members, I was allowed to announce some super news. ACM has adopted “the goal of opening the Digital Library within five years.” Let’s celebrate – #openAccess is something many of us have wanted for a long time pic.twitter.com/uHNvEOMyNf
— Cherri Pancake (@pancakeACM) July 1, 2020
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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