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Open Access publishing deal with ACM

Agreement with no APC payment

In January 2021, Tilburg University Library entered into a transformative open access agreement with ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery. The agreement, which runs for four years, covers open access publication in ACM’s journals and proceedings for all Tilburg University corresponding authors along with subscription access. Authors from affiliated Tilburg institutions also benefit from this deal.

TiU-affiliated corresponding authors who publish with ACM, publish open access at no cost to the author. Authors retain copyright and may select a Creative Commons license for article sharing and reuse.

How does it work?

Please note that corresponding authors must use their institutional email address (@uvt.nl or @tilburguniversity.edu) to be routed to the ACM Open program.

1. A customized email is sent to the Tilburg University corresponding author of a manuscript in each of these instances:
   • Acceptance to an ACM journal
     • Please note that these journals are not included in the ACM Open agreement due to their ownership structure with other publishers:
       • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
       • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
       • TON IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
       • Collective Intelligence
   • Acceptance to an ACM conference
2. The author is informed via this email that Tilburg University has an agreement with ACM under which they can make their article available Open Access at no additional cost and links them to the rights offerings that ACM offers on the eRights form.
3. On the eRights form the author is asked to specify which rights they wish to grant to ACM. The ACM Open option for OA and permission release is most prominent, but authors are also allowed to choose from the same rights transfers as all ACM authors.
4. Upon selection of the ACM Open OA option, authors are asked to select their choice of Creative Commons (CC) license.
5. After selecting their CC license the author will be taken to the second page of the eRights form, asking authors about permissions, third-party material, warranties on originality, and funding.
6. Following form submission, the author’s choices are logged with ACM and they are sent a confirmation email with their rights choices

More information about ACM Open is available on the ACM website.