[racket-dev] ACM publishing and ArXiv

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 30 15:12:43 EDT 2011

The word 'acm' isn't meant literally here. Any body that 
classifies things would work. 

And yes, since 2001 good search has replaced most of 
classification. But not all. 





On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> I think that means "no" actually. The ACM had nothign to do with what
> papers that one choose to cite, nor did they have anything to do with
> google scholar.
> 
> (The ACM has something to do with which links appear between papers in
> the digital library, for example.)
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> Did Stephen find it because of the ACM somehow?
>> 
>> I guess so. It was cited in an acm paper (haskell workshop). I think I
>> found it originally by looking at citations on google scholar, but
>> they probably pulled their information from acm-related papers.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Matthias Felleisen
>>> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> ACM conference also classify your paper so
>>>> that people who look for related work and
>>>> may not have quite the right keywords find
>>>> it anyway.
>>>> 
>>>> ;; ---
>>>> 
>>>> Yesterday Stephen found a paper on tracing
>>>> in a lazy language that, despite its title,
>>>> and despite claims in the introduction,
>>>> comes awfully close to what John published
>>>> in essence in ESOP '01.
>>>> 
>>>> But they wrote it in 98 or so.
>>>> 
>>>> Why didn't we find it? The authors published
>>>> in some obscure Australian conference.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> So what exactly is the benefit of publishing with ACM these days? Is it just to prove that your paper was peer reviewed?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 09/30/2011 12:02 PM, John Clements wrote:
>>>>>> On Sep 30, 2011, at 10:07 AM, John Clements wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In case you didn't catch Stephanie Weirich's post of this on plus.google.com, here's some very interesting information about ArXiv and ACM and where copyrights intersect.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It may be that you can avoid much of this by only publishing "draft" versions of your paper on ArXiv; I Am Not A Lawyer.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Oh for heaven's sake.  Neglected to post the link.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://r6.ca/blog/20110930T012533Z.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> John
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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