usenix proceedings

All USENIX-sponsored conference proceedings were in the past freely available, except those of conferences held in the last twelve months. Those were only available to USENIX members. Today, USENIX announced that they are making all their conference proceedings freely available to everyone.

This is going to be very helpful for all researchers, although I don't think that there are many people interested in any area of systems research that are not USENIX members already. In any case, I hope that ACM, IEEE and Springer/LNCS proceedings become freely available as well (but somehow I doubt it).