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Open Access to Scientific Publications

By Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
Communications of the ACM, February 2010, Vol. 53 No. 2, Pages 32-34
10.1145/1646353.1646367
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Photograph by Anna Creech; Open Access logo by Public Library of Science

In his July 2009 Communications editor's letter "Open, Closed, or Clopen Access?", editor-in-chief Moshe Vardi addressed the question of open access to this magazine and to ACM publications in general. Scientific publishing is undergoing major changes. One reason is the exponential increase in the number of scientific publications, which has turned this area into a serious business.

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