The ACM Digital Library has officially transitioned to full Open Access.

The DL is the heart of the ACM community, which is why your feedback on its recent evolution is so vital. In this letter, President Yannis Ioannidis provides the context for the transition and affirms that we are evaluating the DL experience based on your input.

Read the full letter: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-pres-on-oa-transition-and-dl-changes
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Neat!

ACM's Transition to Full Open Access: A New Era for Computing Research

"In a significant step to broadening access to computing research, ACM has transitioned to a fully Open Access (OA) publishing model, as of January 1, 2026."

https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

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Happy New Year! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access, making computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusable worldwide.

“This is a truly monumental milestone,” said ACM President Yannis Ioannidis, marking a new era for the global computing community.

Explore ACM’s open access journey:
👉 https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

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🎓 Congrats to Ashish Sharma, University of Washington on receiving the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Human-AI Collaboration to Support Mental Health and Well Being." Now a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft, Sharma’s research advances NLP for social good.

👏 Honorable Mentions:
Alexander Kelley, Institute for Advanced Study of UIUC
Sewon Min, UC Berkeley

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Where is the boldest, most creative (non-quantum) #ComputingResearch being done, anywhere in the world?

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