[TUHS] ACM goes Open Access

[Nelson H. F. Beebe via TUHS]

The problem of publisher paywells to journal archives has come up a
number of times on the TUHS list, so, although it is not
Unix-specific, I believe that this announcement from ACM earlier today
may be of interest to some list members:

>> ...
>> ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
>>
>> ACM is pleased to share an important milestone for the computing
>> field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related
>> artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This
>> change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global
>> computing community for research to be more accessible, more
>> discoverable, and more reusable. This transition is the result of
>> extensive dialogue with authors, SIG leaders, editorial boards,
>> libraries, and research institutions worldwide. ACM is grateful for
>> the community's consistent advocacy for openness and its commitment to
>> ensuring that computing knowledge is shared widely. Learn more abnout
>> ACM Open Access here (https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess).
>> ...

Some other publishers offer a portion of their journal articles for
Open Access, but I think that ACM may be the first large organization
to do so for their entire archive.

I maintain large journal bibliography archives at

	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table.html

Almost all of the ACM journals are covered there: 94 journals in 120
files (bibliography size forces splitting some of them into decades).

For most of those files, coverage is complete from the first issue
forward to the latest for which I have received publisher notice.
Most entries have either DOI or URL values to take you directly to
journal articles at publisher sites.

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P.S. For preservation reasons in an age of digital volatility,
mirroring of the archives is strongly encouraged: see

	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/#mirror

If you do so, consider feeding them into a single local database for
convenient searching: see

Database tools and usage tutorial:
	https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/talks/2009/tug2009/tb94beebe.pdf

BibTeX tutorial:
	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/bibtex-info.html

bibsql and bibtosql software:
	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibsql/

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P.P.S. SQLite3 is by far the easiest, and requires no special
administrator privileges.  All it takes is this one-liner:

	bibtosql --create --server sqlite *.bib | sqlite3 > mystuff.db

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