| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Agreement ID | acm2026uv |
| Agreement labeling | ACM Open |
| Is the agreement document publicly available? | No |
| Agreement period | 1/1/2026 – 12/31/2028 |
| Consortia / Institution | University of Valencia |
| Country | Spain |
| COST | |
| How do the costs of the agreement relate to the previous agreement with the publisher? | Cost increase |
| Comments on cost development | Substantial increase due to a change in Tier |
| Describe how the cost model has changed from the previous agreement (e.g., move from subscription to R&P / from capped to uncapped / from single APC payments to flat fee, etc.) | As ACM have become a fully OA publisher, the new agreement is for publishing services only |
| Read-access costs
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, is a split of the cost between read access and publishing services defined? |
No |
| PUBLISHING-RELATED TERMS | |
| Publication output
What is the approximate number of annual corresponding author publications from your institution/consortium with the publisher (in closed, hybrid and fully OA journals)? |
3 |
| Is the agreement’s provision for OA publishing capped (e.g., limited to a specific number of articles per year) or uncapped? | Uncapped |
| Coverage
Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (i.e., journals in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement? |
Yes |
| Are APC-based full open access journals covered by the agreement? | Yes, the agreement only covers APC-based fully OA titles (publishing-only agreement) |
| Are journals operating under other business models (S2O, Diamond OA, etc.) covered by the agreement? | No |
| Article types
Eligible article types |
Original research articles, Proceedings, Editorials, Short papers, Survey papers |
| Risk sharing
What risk-sharing mechanisms exist in cases of exceeding or not reaching the anticipated number of OA publications under the agreement? |
No risk-sharing mechanism |
| READ ACCESS-RELATED TERMS | |
| Coverage of read access
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, is access to all relevant journals required by your users covered by the agreement? |
Yes |
| Perpetual access
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, are perpetual access (post cancellation/termination) rights included? |
Yes |
| If perpetual access rights to subscription content is included, are there associated fees (for continued access to the platform, local hosting, data delivery, etc.)? | No |
| OA WORKFLOW | |
| Author workflow and verification
The date for articles’ eligibility is based on: |
Acceptance date |
| Describe the mechanisms used by the publisher for matching authors with an eligible institution: | Email domain verification |
| How do consortia or institutions verify author eligibility and approve OA funding? | Via publication reports (post-publication) |
| Does the agreement include mechanisms to correct mistakenly approved, missed, or not approved publications (e.g., retrospective OA conversion of closed articles or refunding paid APCs)? | No |
| Does the publisher’s reporting on publications satisfy the needs of your institution (frequency, metadata fields, data quality, etc.)? | No |
| Comments on publisher reporting | Could be more specific and comprehensive |
| May authors be charged additional publication fees (such as page charges, article development charges, etc.)? | Not part of the negotiations/not discussed |
| How would you assess the practical implementation of the agreement? | Ok |
| PUBLISHING LICENSES | |
| Author’s licenses
Open access license types included |
CC BY variations allowed |
| Has the author workflow been customized to direct authors to a certain license (e.g., by making the option for CC BY the preselected default)? | Not part of the negotiations/not discussed |
| If the agreement covers licenses more restrictive than CC BY, do the License to Publish agreements (LtPs) offered to authors differ from the publisher’s standard LtP? | Not part of the negotiations/not discussed |
| In addition to the OA publishing provision, does the agreement include mechanisms to make author accepted manuscripts open access? | Yes |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | |
| Please share your overall assessment of this agreement with the community. Were negotiation goals (such as open access, cost development, etc.) reached? Which elements would have to be adjusted in future agreements? | Given that the association has transitioned to a fully OA model in 2026, the signing of the agreement constitutes the only mechanism to ensure the continued publication of works in ACM without requiring authors to pay APCs. It has not been easy for the stakeholders to fully understand the implications of this transition. |
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