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"The computing industry has changed significantly over the past 75 years, and
the Association for Computing Machinery was there for all of it.
Over that time, the educational and scientific group representing nearly
100,000 members across 190 countries has collected a number of published works
within its archives, many of which discuss fundamental work within the world of
computers—for example, the first mention of UNIX, a groundbreaking operating
system that has deeply influenced modern computing, in 1973, or an in-depth
interview with Steve Jobs from 1989.
Once, this information—immensely valuable to historians and researchers
alike—might have been locked behind a paywall. But as a part of its landmark
campaign for its 75th anniversary celebrations, ACM is opening up a large
portion of its archives, making the first 50 years of its published
records—more than 117,500 documents dating from 1951 to 2000—accessible to the
public without a login.
Vicki L. Hanson, the group’s CEO, noted that the ACM Digital Library initiative
is part of a broader effort to make its archives available via open access by
2025."
Via Lauren Weinstein in
The RISKS Digest Volume 33 Issue 23:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/33/23#subj23
Searchable archives at
https://dl.acm.org/
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