DOI: 10.1145/2447976.2447979 Scott E. Delman

Communications
remains today
one of the
top-cited
publications
in computing.

a few Good
Reasons to Publish
in Communications

With the recent news that ACM authors now
have the option to make their new articles
Open Access via the ACM Digital Library
in perpetuity by paying a one-time Article
Processing Charge (APC), I started
thinking about the long-term im-
pact this new model could have on
ACM, its Digital Library, and ACM’s
publications. This naturally led me
to thinking about the relationship
ACM has with the computing commu-
nity itself, why that relationship is so
strong, and why the “business model”
is ultimately less important for ACM
than the need to continue offering
valuable services
to you, the reader
and member of
this community.
As the publisher of
Communications, I
thought it might be
worthwhile to dedi-
cate this column
to highlight some
of that value spe-
cifically related to
ACM’s flagship.

Scott E. Delman, PUBLISHER