Dear ACL Community,

ACL is considering multiple proposals to change its anonymity period policy.

We seek immediate feedback from our community about two specific proposed changes. The first proposed change would allow authors to freely make versions of their submitted papers available online at any time, for example, on preprint servers such as arXiv or on their personal websites. The second proposed change would allow authors to mention their preprints at any time, including on social media. Taken together, these changes amount to canceling the anonymity period.

ACL Call for participation: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/survey-anonymity-period-policy Submission Deadline: Friday, 22 September 2023 Please use this link to submit your feedback: https://tinyurl.com/aclarxivpolicy.

The survey might take 5 to 10 minutes, and your responses will remain anonymous. Feel free to forward this as you think appropriate. For additional information or suggestions, please feel free to contact any of us.

Your contribution is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely, ACL Working Group