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ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
Open Access Publication & ACM
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Open Access Publication & ACM
As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.