In our field, it is time to support USENIX over IEEE and ACM, over the Open Access issue, too. I'm boycotting IEEE and ACM until they support Open Access.
Amazingly, they're going after authors making their own papers available!
Amazingly, they're going after authors making their own papers available!
* Post the Accepted Version of the Work on (1) the Author's home page, (2) the Owner's institutional repository, or (3) any repository legally mandated by an agency funding the research on which the Work is based
* Post an "Author-Izer" link enabling free downloads of the Version of Record in the ACM Digital Library on (1) the Author's home page or (2) the Owner's institutional repository;
[1] http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Re...
This is all really leading me to want to get more involved in the whole IEEE governance process and maybe try to help spark some kind of initiative to cut down on the access fees for IEEE content. Or maybe an initiative like that already lives... I'm not sure. If there is, I feel like I should find it and get involved.
I love IACR, IFCA, USENIX. I kind of wish there were a "hacker con" organization equivalent to IFCA, covering the regional cons, defcon/blackhat, etc., for things like providing a searchable repository of papers, talks, etc., and maybe a common cfp repository.