Accessibility of the Database Literature

SIGMOD has had for the past few years an over-arching vision of enabling all information on the database field to be freely accessible to everyone. Of course, this goal runs smack into the economic realities of scientific publishing. So the SIGMOD Executive Committee over the period of 1997–2001 tempered its initial goals to the following strategy, emphasizing free CDROM accessibility first, followed by online accessibility, followed by reduced subscription prices.