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Mark Mandelbaum Director, Office of Publications
ACM Publications Mark Mandelbaum Director, Office of Publications 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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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 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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Overview of ACM Publishing
140 Proceedings Annually 34 SIG Newsletters (print +online) 27 Journals 8 magazines About 7K print pages a year 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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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. 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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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 – 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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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: 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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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 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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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 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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SIG Leaders' Orientation
DL Third-party content Deals with other publishers Metadata feeds from other orgs. Need to provide fresh content 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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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 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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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
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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 4/22/2019 SIG Leaders' Orientation
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