1. Mark Mandelbaum Director, Office of Publications
ACM Publications
Mark Mandelbaum
Director, Office of Publications
4/22/2019
SIG Leaders' Orientation

2. SIG Leaders' Orientation
Topics to be Covered
Overview of ACM Publishing Activities
ACM Publications Board
ACM Publications Staff
Copyright
Digital Library
Major Issues
SIG/Pub interaction
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SIG Leaders' Orientation

3. Overview of ACM Publishing
140 Proceedings Annually
34 SIG Newsletters (print +online)
27 Journals
8 magazines
About 7K print pages a year
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4. ACM Publications Board
R. Boisvert, Chair, NIST
M.J. Irwin, Co-Chair Penn State
Holly Rushmeier, Vice Chair, New Publications, Yale
G. Agha, UIUC
B. Allen, Past Chair, Drexel
M. Beaudouin-Lafon, Inria, France
A. Guzman-Arenas, CIC, Mexico
W. Hall, U. Southampton, UK
C. Hutchins, NYU
K. Marzullo, SGB Rep., UCSD
M.T. Ozsu, U. Waterloo
M.L. Soffa, U. Va.
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SIG Leaders' Orientation

5. SIG Leaders' Orientation
Publications Staff
21 FT employees
Editors, Admin., Ad Sales, DL Sales, DL Content, copyright
Bernard Rous – Dep. Dir.
DL Content, problems, questions
Craig Rodkin – Proceedings/Newsletters in DL
Deborah Cotton –Copyrights/Perm.
Mark Mandelbaum –
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SIG Leaders' Orientation

6. SIG Leaders' Orientation
Copyright Issues
Copyright laws are way behind technology
“Unsettled” issues regarding graphics, rights to reuse, etc.
We do not have all the answers yet
Landmark ACM Copyright Policy at:
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SIG Leaders' Orientation

7. SIG Leaders' Orientation
Digital Library
The “Crown Jewels”
Bulk of DL revenue now comes from academic consortia and corporate site licenses
55 consortia
29 corporate site licenses
Over 2000 libraries worldwide now subscribe
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SIG Leaders' Orientation

8. SIG Leaders' Orientation
DL, continued
50% of sales from outside N.A.
China
Taiwan
Korea
India
W. Europe
Still room to grow
Russia
Latin America
Africa
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SIG Leaders' Orientation

9. SIG Leaders' OrientationDL
Third-party content
Deals with other publishers
Metadata feeds from other orgs.
Need to provide fresh content
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SIG Leaders' Orientation

10. Issues we are Dealing with
New Journals Development
Aggressive plan
ACM as alternative to high-priced commercial journals
Feed into the DL
What is core CS?
New areas of research
Plagiarism
Significant increase in past 3 years
Formulating a Policy
Self-Plagiarism
Copyright Policy
Future of Copyright?
Changes to Law
Open Access/ Inst. Repositories
Possible threat to DL
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SIG Leaders' Orientation

11. SIG Leaders' Orientation
SIG/Pub. Interaction
Very close collaboration
SIGs comment on new journal proposals
SIGs involved in EiC selection
SIG/Pub staff have very close, multi-level interactions
Pubs staff as “Publishing consultants” for you
4/22/2019
SIG Leaders' Orientation

12. SIG Leaders' Orientation
Resources
Rights and Responsibilities
Sets out expectations for Authors, Editors, PCs, etc.
Pubs. Policies
Collection of most significant Pubs. Policies
How to start a new ACM Journal
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SIG Leaders' Orientation