All, 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 dl-feedb...@acm.org. Regards, John R. White Executive Director/CEO Association for Computing Machinery ------- End of Forwarded Message -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Chair, ACM SIGCAS http://www.sigcas.org/ (Special Interest Group on Computers and Society) Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/
