Came to say the same thing. Now remains the time to give the public access to the ACM digital library.

ACM agrees I think: https://dl.acm.org/openaccess

> Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.

Wait, so did this already happen and it just didn’t get attention?

It was a front page story here on HN back in December 2025:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991

It got a lot of discussion here when it happened and before as they phased it in.