| Publisher |
Association for Computing Machinery |
| Agreement ID | acm2021sanlic |
| Agreement labeling | ACM Open |
| Has the agreement been disclosed and published? | No |
| Agreement period | 01/01/2021 – 12/31/2023 |
| Consortia / Institution | SANLiC |
| Country | South Africa |
| SIZE
Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications |
64 |
| COSTS
How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher? |
Cost decrease |
| Comments on cost development | A decrease in cost for 14 out of 15 subscribing institutions (Tiers 8 – 10) |
| FINANCIAL SHIFT
Transformative agreements vary by their transformative mechanisms, meaning the way in which financing is shifted from the subscription side to open access publishing. What are the characteristics of this agreement to this regard?
|
A transformative, publish and read offer. ACM intend achieving full Open Access within five years. |
| RISK SHARING
How do entitlements for open access publishing correlate to the anticipated article output? Which mechanisms for risk sharing have been agreed in cases of exceeding or not reaching the number of OA publishing entitlements?
|
Uncapped OA publishing |
| OA COVERAGE
Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement? |
Yes |
| Are fully open access journals covered by the agreement? | Yes |
| OA LICENSE | CC-BY variations allowed |
| ARTICLE TYPES |
Original research articles Review articles Proceedings Letters Editorials |
| ACCESS COSTS
What is the approximate share of access related costs of the overall agreement? |
0% |
| ACCESS COVERAGE
Are all read relevant journals covered by the agreement? |
Yes |
| PERPETUAL ACCESS RIGHTS | Yes |
| WORKFLOW ASSESSMENT | Too early to assess |
| Request contact to the licensee | contact [at] esac-initiative [dot] org |