> Vicki L. Hanson, the group’s CEO, noted that the ACM Digital Library initiative is part of a broader effort to make its archives available via open access by 2025.
> “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.”
USENIX has been open access for years.
Some ACM conferences and journals (e.g. SIGCOMM/CCR) have been open access for several years.
One step that ACM could take that wouldn't require any technical changes to their existing infrastructure would be to officially offer republication and redistribution rights to any non-commercial digital library including arxiv.org, archive.org, sci-hub, etc..
> Vicki L. Hanson, the group’s CEO, noted that the ACM Digital Library initiative is part of a broader effort to make its archives available via open access by 2025.
> “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.”