ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Type

Transformative agreement (via CAUL).

Status

Active from 1 January 2024 (for articles published or accepted from this date).

Current agreement term

1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026.

Journal coverage

Unlimited open access publishing for University of Melbourne corresponding authors in all ACM journals, conference proceedings, and magazines.

Covered journals are reflected in our all covered journals spreadsheet and in CAUL's title list.

Eligible authors

To be eligible, the article's corresponding author must, at the time of submission, provide their University of Melbourne affiliation. This must be their first and primary affiliation in the publishing system and in the article itself.

According to ACM: "There can only be a single corresponding author designated for each accepted article. A corresponding author has the authority to represent their co-authors in all publication related matters with ACM and is responsible for the completion of the ACM rights assignment process." (CAUL)

Eligible article types

See the "Agreement details" section of the CAUL R&P Guide's ACM page for the full list of included and excluded article types. Eligible types include:

• Conference or proceedings paper
• Interview
• Note
• Research Article
• Review Article
• Short Paper
• Survey
• Technical Note
• Tutorial

How to use the agreement

When possible, corresponding authors should use their unimelb email address (@unimelb.edu.au or @student.unimelb.edu.au). They should provide this in the publisher's submission platform and use it for correspondence. ACM's eRights system will match the email domain to the University of Melbourne agreement.

If the corresponding author is unable to provide a unimelb email address, they should contact ACM before completing the eRights Form. This will ensure the article is properly affiliated and covered under the agreement.

Authors will be required to provide their ORCID upon article submission.  ACM uses the corresponding author's employment details in ORCID as a secondary means of confirming affiliation, when necessary. We encourage authors to ensure their ORCID affiliations are up-to-date (see instructions here).

When selecting a "rights assignment" option during the publishing process, select ACM's "Institutionally Paid Open Access/Permission Release" option. This provides ACM with a non-exclusive license to publish the article under a CC BY licence.

For details on how to publish open access using the ACM agreement, see the "Open access workflow" section of teh agreement's CAUL R&P Guide page.

Further information

• CAUL R&P Guide
• ACM OPEN (ACM’s Transformative Model for Open Access Publication)

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