This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and 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. ACM’s goal is to make this transition smooth and supportive for everyone who contributes to ACM’s publications and conferences.
As part of this transition, the ACM Digital Library is now offered in two editions: a free Basic edition that provides open access to ACM’s full corpus of published research, and a Premium edition that offers additional services and tools designed for deeper analysis, discovery, and organizational use.
Also in the works: ACM will be integrating with the IPregistry.org to ensure it has access to the data needed to provide libraries with the OA usage metrics that will be vital to ensure the sustainability of this project.
For more information about ACM's journey to full open access, visit: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess.