Awesome! Thanks ACM!
ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years
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#12What 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.
(edit: almost) everything can be found on sci hub.
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#13Anyone else's company's employment agreement prevent them from join a standards body without permission?
Re: ACM Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years
#14What 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.
(edit: almost) everything can be found on sci hub.
Not everything. A lot. But stuff published this year still hasn't made its way there. And not all social sciences.
source: dissertating
(When I need something I can't get through my library, #icanhazpdf, find on scihub, or other googley means; I just email the author. Though that can take some time.)
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#15Anyone else's company's employment agreement prevent them from join a standards body without permission?
Where are you from? Is it common for an employer to be able to regulate what you do when you're not on the clock?
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#16What 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.
(edit: almost) everything can be found on sci hub.
In my experience, the only hole in shadow libraries is that they lack scans of old papers on non-trendy subjects. Interestingly, it seems the humanities don't have analogously useful sites.
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#17What 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.
I think you are overestimating how available high-quality information. Low quality, misinformation, disinformation - that is all widely available.
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#18Anyone else's company's employment agreement prevent them from join a standards body without permission?
Nope. I've even had them pay my membership costs for ACM and IEEE and various SIGs or Societies within them. Why wouldn't they want you to participate, even passively, in these organizations?
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#19This 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
In some languages it is datalogy :). For example Swedish: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datavetenskap
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#20On a related subject, does anyone know of a simple technique to download and save large quantities of all publicly available research articles?
Simple technique and large quantities are often not compatible... Check out the work of Internet Archive Scholar at https://scholar.archive.org. Their code is open source https://github.com/internetarchive/fatcat-scholar