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by don_esteban 106 days ago
That works nicely if your institution participates in ACM Open (no such institution in my country, and no, my country is not in the list of lower-middle income countries).

The combination of 'publish or perish' with 'pay for publication' and 'miserly grant money' is deadly.

While in theory the idea is nice, in practice this is a problem (maybe not in most rich countries, but here definitely).

Nowadays, you could always get the article you are interested in, even if it is beyond a paywall. Hence, perversely, the old model (which I hate, for reasons well explained in the original post) worked better for me. :-(