"The Way Things Were": How the Association for Computing Machinery
Is Opening the Doors to Its Archives
By Ernie Smith, May 18, 2022
- https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-the-acm-digital-library-matters/

"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." ...

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