[open-science] Positioning ACM for an open access future

Tue Feb 5 17:32:45 UTC 2013

:) http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2408776.2408777

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Date: 2013/2/5
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Date: 2013/2/5
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     Today's Topic: *ACM Council Endorses New Publishing Policy*

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
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ACM's resolve to offer more free access pathways to its respected
publications archive will enter a new realm in the coming months with the
endorsement of a publishing policy that expands author rights and provides
greater levels of flexibility in regard to open access.

The policy changes, approved by ACM Council last October, are in response
to the expressed needs of authors, researchers, and ACM members for more
free access to the content of ACM journals and conference proceedings in
the ACM Digital Library and other online venues.

The new policy enables open access to the most current proceedings volume
of each ACM Special Interest Group conference at the discretion of the
sponsoring SIGs. The free access is available at the SIG or conference web
site.

And SIGs will have the option to make the proceedings from their
conferences freely available via the ACM DL platform for up to two weeks
before the event and for a total period of one month. Not only will this
option facilitate easy access to the proceedings by conference attendees,
it will also enable the community at large to experience the excitement of
learning about the latest developments being presented in the period
surrounding the event itself.

Changes also include new options for authors to manage the publication
rights to their work. Authors who prefer to retain copyright of their work
may choose to sign an equivalent licensing agreement with ACM. Authors who
wish to retain all rights to their work can exercise an author-pays option,
which allows for perpetual open access to their work. Authors who prefer to
have ACM manage the rights and permissions associated with their work may
continue using the traditional ACM Copyright Transfer Agreement.

Under both ACM's copyright transfer agreement and the new license, authors
have the rights of:

   - Exclusive ownership of patents and trademarks
   - Reuse of any portion of the work without fee or need for permission in
   future work
   - Major revisions and creation of derivative works wholly owned by author
   - Freely posted author-prepared Accepted Versions in personal
   bibliographies and on their own institutions' repositories

For more information, see the
editorial<http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2408776.2408777>by ACM
Publications Board Co-Chairs Ronald F. Boisvert and Jack W. Davidson
in the February 2013 *Communications of the ACM*.
   <http://acm.org/pubs>

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