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letter from acm publications board co-chairs T he age of open access is upon us. Increasingly, the consensus of authors of research articles and their funding institutions is that the fruits of taxpayer-supported research should be freely available to the public. This is a compelling argument and a noble goal. But, achieving open access is not easy. Professional maintenance and distribution of large digital archives, guaranteed for the long term, does incur significant cost. The most promising model for recovering such costs under an open-access regime is an authorpays (or, in effect, a funding institution pays) model. Such a scheme introduces issues of its own. If publishers generate revenue by producing more content (paid for by authors) rather than quality content (paid for by subscribers), then the natural tendency in the system will be for the generation of large quantities of low-quality content. Indeed, we have seen the rise of predatory publishers, actively seeking authors to pay for publication in venues devoid of the exacting scrutiny of conscientious peer review. The result is a glut of third-rate publications that add noise rather than insight to the scientific enterpri

Who reads Positioning ACM for an open access future?

Author

Ronald F. Boisvert; Jack W. Davidson

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); ScienceOpen (ISSN 0001-0782)

Published

2013

Language

EN

Field

Computer Science (Physical Sciences)