Opening Computing Research to the World: ACM Moves to 100% Open Access

"The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest and oldest society of computing professionals, has transitioned its entire portfolio to 100% Open Access on 1 January 2026. This marks a major milestone for the global computing and information science community. By making all ACM publications openly available, the move is expected to widen access to knowledge, reduce inequalities in participation, and strengthen reproducibility and interdisciplinary research.

To learn more about the motivations behind the decision and what it means for researchers worldwide, we spoke with ACM President Yannis Ioannidis, who is also one of the founding members of OpenAIRE AMKE, the coordinator of all the initiative’s projects beforehand, a professor of informatics and telecommunications at the University of Athens, and an associated faculty member at Athena Research Center."