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Read & Publish Agreements and Publisher Discounts: ACM

This guide explains Read & Publish open access agreements provided for UC researchers by the Library. These agreements remove Article Processing Fees payable by authors for open access publishing to included publishers and journals.

ACM Digital Library Read & Publish Agreement

The University of Canberra has a Read & Publish agreement with ACM Digital Library for 2024

Journals included in this agreement

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in all of ACM's hybrid and gold journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).

Eligible journals (airtable)

Full list of eligible journals and conference proceedings series (publisher's website)

Eligible article types

  • Research Article
  • Short Paper
  • Review Article
  • Survey Article
  • Technical Note
  • Tutorial
  • Interview
  • Note

Limitations of the agreement

  • There is no cap on the number of articles published across all participating institutions.
  • Articles must be accepted on or after 1 Jan 2024.

Creative Commons licences

You may select a Creative Commons license for your work as part of this process. For information on Creative Commons licenses, see the home page of this guide.

The default license is CC BY.

How to submit your article

Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.

The corresponding author must use their University of Canberra email address (@canberra.edu.au) when submitting an article for publication. Use of a personal email address may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.

ACM does not charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.