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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi ERL-L,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> We are cutting our library budget again here at Winona State. It was brought to my attention that the ACM Digital Library has announced (<a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess">https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess</a>)
that they are now 100% Open Access. Does this mean that we can discontinue our license? (The current license includes funding for page charges for publishing in ACM titles, but it turns out that our CS faculty don’t publish in ACM titles, so that is not an
issue for us.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Has anyone else looked into this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Vernon Leighton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">___________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">*If using assistive software, the message ends here; email signature below.*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">H. Vernon Leighton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Coordinator of Liaison Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">and Acquisitions and Collections Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Winona State University Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">P.O. Box 5838<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Winona, MN 55987-5838<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">(507) 457-5148<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:VLeighton@winona.edu">VLeighton@winona.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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