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I am so pleased that the ACM is innovating this new OA mechanism and I want to heartily congratulate them. Especially since they are my professional and scholarly society (go team CS!) However, this initiative is so not going to gain traction in its current form. It requires an inordinate amount of work by the authors, including copying an pasting magic HTML into the source of their web page / institutional repository page. For each paper. Even assuming that this were technically possible (arbitrary HTML injection into institutional web pages by its users is a security nightmare) it is complex and longwinded. So, 10/10 for effort, 4/10 for achievement in this initiative's current form. Having said that, I would love to have the opportunity to work with the ACM to automate this process at the institutional level in some way (and I am seeking routes to do that). -- Les Carr On 12 Oct 2011, at 17:26, Andrew A. Adams wrote: > An announcement from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) is below. > > Quick summary: authors of articles included in the ACM's toll-access Digital > Library (DL) can now nominate one URL from which toll-free access to the DL > version (usually the publisher's version of record) will work. Central or > institutional repository pages can be used as the launch-point. > > Other notes: 1. The ACM is a green publisher and endorse the deposit of the > author's version of the post-print on their web pages or in repositories. 2. > The ACM's copyright policy, although a copyright transfer, provides > significant libre rights back to the original author(s) (though not to > others). > 3. The ACM Digital Library includes material not originally published by the > ACM. These materials are also covered by the toll-free access provision (the > ACM will fund any charges incurred for access to third-party materials from > the DL subscriptions in the same way it does for subscriber access). 4. This > applies retroactively to all material currently in the DL, not just new > material appearing from now on. > > ------- Forwarded Message > Dear Colleague: > I am pleased to announce a unique service that ACM is introducing called ACM > Author-Izer. It enables ACM authors to post links on either their own web > page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive > version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge. > ACM Author-Izer also enables the dynamic display of download and citation > statistics for each "authorized" article on the author's personal page. By > linking the author's personal bibliography with the ACM Digital Library, > downloads from the author's site are captured in official ACM statistics, > more accurately reflecting total usage. ACM Author-Izer also expands ACM's > reputation as an innovative "Green Path" publisher. > This service is based on ACM's strong belief that the computing community > should have the widest possible access to the definitive versions of > scholarly literature. By making ACM Author-Izer a free service to both > authors and visitors to those authors' websites, ACM is emphasizing its > continuing commitment to the interests of its authors and to the computing > community in ways that are consistent with its existing subscription access > models. > For additional information including a PowerPoint presentation that > illustrates ACM Author-Izer, please visit http://www.acm.org/publications/acm- > author-izer-service. > I hope you will use this service and inform friends and colleagues about the > existence of ACM Author-Izer. Your actions will help contribute to improving > the community's access to ACM published articles. I value any thoughts you > may have about it at [log in to unmask] > Regards, > > John R. White > Executive Director/CEO > Association for Computing Machinery > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > > -- > Professor Andrew A Adams [log in to unmask] > Chair, ACM SIGCAS http://www.sigcas.org/ > (Special Interest Group on Computers and Society) > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/