Stephen Downes

People were looking forward to the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) pledge that "beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access." Instead, we got a holiday surprise. "Starting on or about Saturday 20 December 2025, the DL has placed all of these useful features behind a paywall. 'Premium Access' is now required to access bibliographic and bibliometric features that had been completely free and open for the past several years." I have an interest in this as I have a number of ACM publications (specifically, in ELearn Magazine). Terence Kelly, ACM Distinguished Member and Lifetime Member, is taking to the streets.