acm2021lu

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Agreement ID acm2021lu
Agreement labeling ACM OPEN Journals Agreement 2021-2023
Has the agreement been fully disclosed and published? No
Agreement period 01/01/2021 – 12/31/2023
Consortia / Institution Consortium Luxembourg
Country Luxembourg
SIZE

Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications

30
COSTS

How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher?

Agreement costs within the range of the previous spending level
Comments in cost development Tiered model; no increase over 3 years compared to former subscription model.
FINANCIAL SHIFT

Transfomative 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 Deficient
Comments on workflows Dashboard in development: no action needed from librarians = efficient. However, no control about accepted publications. Yearly publication report available on request.
OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS
This agreement is a flipped model based on publishing output and no “read” fee. https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/acmopen
Request contact to the licensee contact@esac-initiative.org