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On a related subject, does anyone know of a simple technique to download and save large quantities of all publicly available research articles?
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 or…
> “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.”
This sort of confuses me even more. Is the "paying for it" talking about the work needed to be done to make each paper open-access, or is this talking about funding the ability to host the papers?
Just curious about what the costs are that are mentioned and the plan to cover those costs and how the results in needing to open access to papers in tranches. Maybe the model could be adopted by other journals, too?
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
In some languages it is datalogy :). For example Swedish: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datavetenskap
Anyone else's company's employment agreement prevent them from join a standards body without permission?
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 or…
Thanks for the article. I've wondered why they need to open access to these papers in tranches. I had imagined there is probably work to prepare each paper and possibly securing agreements? > “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.” This sort of confuses me even more. Is the "paying for it…
- Accounting for the loss in revenue from changing a service that was once commercial (as this would be an example of a loss of a "nondues revenue," something a lot of organizations are actually trying to increase so as to cut back their reliance on membership dues)
- Potential rights considerations (there are magazine articles with photos in that archive, for example, and many of those might have contracts/ownership considerations to work through)
- The labor of actually managing the transition (with something like this you wouldn't want to just run a script to open it up, you probably would have to double-check things, and there are simply a lot of things). They have to budget for any employee work used to handle this transition.
They emphasized to me in our interview, however, that the issue was not technical; I actually thought it might be given the amount of content there is, but as they're quoted as saying in the piece, the real work centered around the creative decision-making around actually making a call like this.