From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:43:18 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX magazines In-Reply-To: <20140613040322.793E81DE37F@lignose.oclsc.org> References: <20140613040322.793E81DE37F@lignose.oclsc.org> Message-ID: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Norman Wilson wrote: > USENIX now makes all their conference papers available online, > free to anyone, except that only those registered for a > conference can read them before the conference actually happens. > That's not a bad substitute for a journal, I suppose. > ​Thank you Norman.​ ​As President of USENIX during that choice, that is a legacy I am particularly proud. It was a bit of a scary thing to do and so far ACM and IEEE have been loath to follow suite as completely (I suspect because the digital library is (was) a significant source of revenue for all three organizations). [To be fair, there are some exceptions, I believe ACM Queue is downloadable - although I note that it is interesting a lot of people working on Queue are also USENIX folks some of whom may be lurking on this mailing list]. For what ever its worth, just a month or so ago, I was very pleased to see my now Sr in college CS major daughter -- who went to her first USENIX conference in 1993 in stroller -- just joined USENIX (maybe its a little like joining "the party"). But if USENIX is to continue their tradition of being open and freely accessible, I offer an unabashed advertisement (i.e no pay walls): like her and her college peers, please consider a USENIX membership and/or going to a conference or two. To Doug's question -- I agree that the answers about "Computing Systems" that have been given are pretty much to the mark. It was not an insignificant undertaking to publish such a journal; and keeping it/dropping was a trade off. To all on the list, I can say that the Board has toyed with bring it back a couple of times when I was on it. If any of you have thoughts on the matter, send them to the current Board of Directors ( bod at usenix.org ) and/or the Executive Director: Casey Henderson (execdir at usenix.org). Clem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: