Publishing agreements
Transformative Agreement with ACM for APC Coverage
In a significant step forward, we have secured a transformative arrangement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to cover the article processing charges (APCs) for ACM publications. This agreement will eliminate financial barriers for faculty publishing in ACM journals, further promoting open access to scholarly research.
Publisher & aggrement title: ACM open access agreement
Agreement duration: three (3) years, commencing on January 1, 2024 and extending through December 31, 2026
Costs covered: full article publishing cost (APC)
Authors: Corresponding authors must be affiliated with the American College of Greece.
Authors rights: Authors may select one of two rights assignment options:
- the ACM License option where all individual co-authors of the published article retain the copyright to their article and provide ACM with an exclusive license to publish their article or
- the ACM Institutionally Paid Open Access /Permission Release option which provides ACM with a non-exclusive license to publish their article and which allows the authors to make their published article shareable via the use of a Creative Commons license with CC-BY as the default option.
What you can publish: Research articles, review articles, short papers, survey articles, technical notes, tutorials, interviews, case studies, or notes.
Where you can publish: In the complete contents of the ACM Digital Library (DL), including ACM’s entire publication portfolio of journals, magazines, conference proceedings, newsletters, websites, and multimedia files, whose contents are listed here .