| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Agreement ID | acm2026jisc |
| Agreement labeling | ACM Open 2026-28 |
| Is the agreement document publicly available? | Yes |
| URL | https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10376/1/ACM-open-2026-2028-licence.docx |
| Agreement period | 1/1/2026 – 12/31/2028 |
| Consortia / Institution | Jisc |
| Country | UK |
| 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 |
| Comments on cost development | No increase in fees under model |
| 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.) | Renewal of 2023-25 flat fee agreement, previously subscription + APCs |
| 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? |
Yes |
| If a split of the cost between read access and publishing services is defined, what percentage of the overall agreement cost relates to read access? | 20%-50% |
| 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)? |
1022 |
| 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? |
No |
| Are APC-based full open access journals covered by the agreement? | Yes, alongside hybrid titles, selectively |
| Are journals operating under other business models (S2O, Diamond OA, etc.) covered by the agreement? | No |
| Article types
Eligible article types |
Original research articles, Review articles, Proceedings |
| 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: |
Approval 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? | No process in place (publications are deemed automatically verified/approved) |
| 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.)? | Yes |
| May authors be charged additional publication fees (such as page charges, article development charges, etc.)? | No |
| How would you assess the practical implementation of the agreement? | Ok |
| Comments on workflows | We had issues with articles being published under a standard licence during the previous (2023-25) term, and limited recourse to address this during the agreement term. Now that ACM have flipped to fully OA with the exception of journals published with IEEE these articles are FTV, and we expect this issue to improve. We are engaging with ACM on their workflows in 2026. CC BY is by selection, supported by author guidance. |
| PUBLISHING LICENSES | |
| Author’s licenses
Open access license types included |
CC BY mandatory |
| 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)? | No |
| If the agreement covers licenses more restrictive than CC BY, do the License to Publish agreements (LtP) 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 |
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