On Wed, 05 Oct 2005, Dimitry Golubovsky
The papers presented at the Workshop are already available in the ACM library which requires membership/subscription to read full text PDFs. Are there any plans to make those papers available anywhere else on the Web without subscription?
See http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_policy/. Particularly the following part: "Under the ACM copyright transfer agreement, the original copyright holder retains: [...] * the right to post author-prepared versions of the work covered by ACM copyright in a personal collection on their own Home Page and on a publicly accessible server of their employer. Such posting is limited to noncommercial access and personal use by others, and must include [...]" Most authors do put their papers on their web pages nowadays. On a side note, it is a little strange that the research community does the research, writes and typesets the papers, and does most (?) of the arrangements for the conferences, and still someone else gets the copyright. University libraries have to pay lots of money for access to publications. I may have missed some term in the equation, though. -- /NAD