| Publisher |
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Agreement ID | acm2020ie |
| Agreement labeling | ACM OPEN Journals Agreement 2020-2022 |
| Has the agreement been disclosed and published? | Yes |
| URL | https://irel.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IReL_ACM_OPEN_Agreement_-_March_2020_ESAC.pdf |
| Agreement period | 01/01/2020 – 12/31/2022 |
| Consortia / Institution | IReL |
| Country | Ireland |
| SIZE
Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications |
23 |
| COSTS
How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher? |
Cost increase |
| Comments on cost development | Mean data provided by publisher 2016-2018 |
| 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?
|
Subscriptions fully converted to OA publishing fees (access related costs 5% or less) |
| 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, unlimited 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 preference, exceptions 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 |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | Agreement is a flipped model based on publishing output and no “read” fee. “Ramped up/phased” pricing has been introduced for those research intensive high publishing tiers to ease the transition from paying to read to paying to publish and these have been fixed over the three years. |
| Request contact to the licensee | contact [at] esac-initiative [dot] org |