ACM Computing Research Repository

This may shed some light on the future of academic publications. The following was announced by the ACM recently:

> Researchers have made their papers available by putting them on
> personal web pages, departmental pages, and on various ad hoc sites
> known only to cognescenti. Until now, there has been no single
> repository to which researchers from the whole field of computing
> can submit reports.
>
> That is about to change. Through a partnership of ACM, the Los
> Alamos e-Print archive, and NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science
> Technical Reference Library), an online Computing Research
> Repository (CoRR) has been established. The Repository has been
> integrated into the collection of over 20,000 computer science
> research reports and other material available through NCSTRL and
> will be linked with the ACM Digital Library. The Repository is
> available to all members of the community at no charge.

Full article: http://www.acm.org/corr/

Just a side note, I've noticed that the computer community seems to lead the rest of academia and the press in promoting online publication. This dates back to my days at the University of California, using the Melvyl online computer catalog. The first online content from pring publications was in the computer science periodicals database.

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