ACM Transitions All Publications to Open Access Starting January 2026
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Summary
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has transitioned all its publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library to open access as of January 1, 2026. This major policy change responds to the global computing community's demand for more accessible, discoverable, and reusable research. ACM President Yannis Ioannidis calls this a monumental milestone, making ACM one of the few organizations offering a large, integrated, and highly curated open access library of computing research.
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This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
This is a truly monumental milestone
ACM will become one of the very few organizations to offer a large, integrated, and highly curated library of articles
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