ACM No-Charge APCs (Read & Publish Agreement)
ACM OPEN
As of 2023 Weizmann affiliated authors can publish open-access articles free of charge in ACM Digital Library. Participating in this pilot program helps ACM transform its publishing model to fully open access while helping to advance the visibility and access of Weizmann-authored publications.
Weizmann Library is paying one fee to cover subscription access as well as open-access publication costs. As a result, members of the Weizmann will have full access to content in the ACM Digital Library; and, authors who wish to publish open access with ACM can do so without the need to pay article processing charges. ACM shall provide all Affiliated Corresponding Authors with the option to retain the copyright in their articles, including on behalf of all co-authors.
The agreement is in effect from January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2027.
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Who is eligible to participate?
Corresponding authors who are affiliated with Weizmann Institute of Science.
Who is considered a corresponding author?
Corresponding authors are either sole authors or co-authors of articles accepted by ACM for publication, who are designated by their co-authors to serve as the corresponding author for the accepted article.
What article types are eligible for Open Access publication under this agreement?
All fully peer-reviewed research articles newly published in ACM’s magazines, conference proceedings and journals are eligible.
What do I need to do to participate?
You must use your Weizmann email address when you submit your work to ACM for publication. After your article is accepted for publication, you will receive an email from ACM Rights Review that mentions the Weizmann Library agreement with ACM. After linking to ACM's eRights form, if you want to take advantage of this agreement, must select "Permission Release".
Which license should I choose?
If you selected the Open Access (Permission Release) option, you will be asked to select your preferred Creative Commons License. While the default CC license, CC-BY (Attribution), allows you to retain all rights to your work and grants re-use rights to others, you can choose to add additional restrictions to the license. You can allow remixing, prohibit commercial use (CC-BY-NC), require Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA), or combine any of these 3 options.
At the end of the day, any CC license supports open access. The choice of which CC license is entirely up to you. Fewer restrictions allow your work the widest possible discovery and re-use.
What if I don't want to publish open access?
You can still publish your article with ACM, even if you do not wish to use this open access option. This agreement does not limit or dictate your decisions on where or how you wish to publish. This agreement provides an open access publishing option with ACM at no cost to you. You can choose not to publish your work openly.
What is a "Read and Publish" agreement?
A Read-and-Publish agreement is an agreement in which the publisher receives payment for reading as well as payment for publishing bundled into a single contract. For more information about this, and other transformative agreements, see "Transformative Agreements: A Primer" by L. Hinchliffe.
The attached document will demonstrate the process for the author.