The #ACM’s #open-access project: “Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.”
on 02025-12-19The "Berlin Declaration" is a key document of the #Open-Access movement.
on 02025-12-18Public-domain #open-access #ebook of “Dynamite Stories” by Hudson Maxim
on 02024-08-0302012 version of the #open-access #CC #ebook “Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation” (#PLAI), which has a gentle tutorial introduction to Hindley-Milner type checking
on 02024-08-03explains how the Stanford #Encyclopedia of #Philosophy is funded and edited: several dozen already-well-known “subject editors” choose topics and invite writers, which is basically the standard encyclopedia model. Authors and subject editors work for free, Stanford pays its four FTEs, and they’ve gotten the rest paid for by grants (US$2M over 15 years) and by “one-time contributions” from academic libraries, which goes into an SEP endowment, which is now US$3M (US$2M from contributors, the rest from Stanford); this is backed by a money-back guarantee if the SEP shuts down. 10% of the budget comes from a “friends of the SEP” program which gives you PDFs for a few bucks a year. #open-access #academia
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