Open, Closed, or Clopen Access?

Moshe Y. Vardi

July 1, 2009

A frequent question I hear about Communications, and about ACM publishing in general, involves its access model. I am asked: "Why don't you adopt the open-access model?" Good question! Why don't we?

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