(realtimerendering.com): The Association for Computing Machinery is attracting criticism for its opposition to public access. In 2008, legislation was passed requiring all NIH-funded researchers to submit their papers to an openly available repository within a year of publication. Even this modest step towards full open access was immediately attacked by rent-seeking scientific publishers. More recently the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy started to collect public feedback on expanding open access. From ACM’s official comment, it is clearly joining the rent-seekers. This is perhaps not surprising, considering the recent ACM take-down of Ke-Sen Huang’s paper link pages (Bernard Rous, who signed the comment, is also the person who issued the take-down).
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