| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Agreement ID | acm2026ie |
| Agreement labeling | The IReL-ACM Licence Agreement 2026-2028 |
| Is the agreement document publicly available? | Yes |
| URL | https://irel.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-2028-ACM-Open-IREL-Consortium-Agreement_03022026_Public.pdf |
| Agreement period | 1/1/2026 – 12/31/2028 |
| Consortia / Institution | IReL |
| Country | Ireland |
| COST | |
| How do the costs of the agreement relate to the previous agreement with the publisher? | Agreement costs within the range of the previous spending level |
| 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 |
| 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)? |
71 |
| 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) |
| Article types
Eligible article types |
Original research articles, Review articles, Short papers, Survey articles, Technical notes, Tutorials, Interviews, Case studies, or Notes |
| 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 |
| 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)? | Yes |
| Does the publisher’s reporting on publications satisfy the needs of your institution (frequency, metadata fields, data quality, etc.)? | Yes |
| 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)? | Yes |
| In addition to the OA publishing provision, does the agreement include mechanisms to make author accepted manuscripts open access? | No |
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