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ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years

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This is great news, I have been rather annoyed in the past when I wanted to share stuff that were on the archive publicly. The last such example I can remember was Peter Naur's reasoning that it should not be computer science, but Datalogy: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365719.366510

Re: ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years

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If anyone is curious, here’s the previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31447465

“ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years of Published Records” (acm.org)

473 points by yarapavan 23 days ago | 51 comments

Re: ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years

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I interviewed ACM's CEO recently on this topic, which has been shared previously: https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-...

Quick note: They are planning on opening the whole archive in a few years but it is still a work in progress. The plan is for 2025 for the whole archive to be opened. They released the first 50 years now in part because it timed well to the 75th anniversary.

Finally, the org's 75th anniversary livestream took place on Friday, more info about it is here: https://www.acm.org/75-celebration-event

Re: ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years

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post #5

On a related subject, does anyone know of a simple technique to download and save large quantities of all publicly available research articles?

Write a scraping program with appropriate throttling to be nice to providers with beautifulsoup on python. I have done this fairly successfully.

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What are some precious information in ACM.org that is not possible to get another place? I mean in this age where everything is so public. Or not? I used to have a 1 year free access to all of ACM resources. This was a gift. But I did not to anything. Maybe I lost an opportunity.
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