Sounds like a great step forward! *-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles*
* Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_____________________________________________* On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a development on the "who can read the scientific literature" > front, if you rank computer science as part of the scientific literature: > > ACM is introducing the ACM > *Author-Izer*<http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service>, > a unique service that 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. > > > So authors may distribute unlimited digital reprints of their own articles > published in ACM (Assoc. for Computing Machinery) journals while ACM > maintains the archive and keeps the statistics on downloads. > > I've noticed some authors who have pre-emptively taken this liberty with > Science, Nature, and other journals. They just include digital copies of > the published versions of their papers on their personal web-sites for > anyone to download. What the ACM is doing is better for the journals since > they learn what is being downloaded, they keep an ongoing role as archival > repositories of the literature, and they don't appear simply as freeloading > squatters collecting rents on intellectual progress. > > -- rec -- > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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