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Open Access Publishing Deals (was: Read & Publish Agreements): ACM

This guide explains open access publishing deals provided for UC researchers by the Library.

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). Conference proceedings are also included in this agreement.

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

See Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL - Association for Computing Machinery for a list of exclusions.

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

The corresponding author must use their University of Canberra email address (@canberra.edu.au) and list University of Canberra as one of their affiliations to be automatically recognised as part of the ACM Open Program.

Please see: How to submit your article for open access publishing for detailed instructions

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.