Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) OPEN

Corresponding authors who are affiliated with Purdue University-West Lafayette, Purdue Northwest, and Purdue Fort Wayne are eligible for this program.

Corresponding authors are either sole authors or co-authors of articles accepted by ACM for publication, who are designated by their co-authors to serve as the corresponding author for the accepted article.

All fully peer-reviewed research articles newly published in ACM’s magazines, conference proceedings and journals are eligible.

You must use your Purdue email address when you submit your work to ACM for publication. After your article is accepted for publication, you will receive an email from ACM Rights Review that mentions the Purdue Libraries agreement with ACM. After linking to ACM’s eRights form, if you want to take advantage of this agreement, must select “Permission Release”.

If you selected the Open Access (Permission Release) option, you will be asked to select your preferred Creative Commons License. While the default CC license, CC-BY (Attribution), allows you to retain all rights to your work and grants re-use rights to others, you can choose to add additional restrictions to the license. You can allow remixing, prohibit commercial use (CC-BY-NC), require Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA), or combine any of these 3 options.

Creative Commons offers an online tool to help you select the most appropriate CC license for your work. Visit the Creative Commons License Chooser to learn more.

At the end of the day, any CC license supports open access. The choice of which CC license is entirely up to you. Fewer restrictions allow your work the widest possible discovery and re-use.

You can still publish your article with ACM, even if you do not wish to use this open access option. This agreement does not limit or dictate your decisions on where or how you wish to publish. This agreement provides an open access publishing option with ACM at no cost to you. You can choose not to publish your work openly.

A Read-and-Publish agreement is an agreement in which the publisher receives payment for reading as well as payment for publishing bundled into a single contract. For more information about this, and other transformative agreements, see “Transformative Agreements: A Primer” by L. Hinchliffe.

Purdue University, West Lafayette: Nina Collins, nkcollin@purdue.edu
Purdue Northwest: Joseph Coates, jcoates@pnw.edu
Purdue Fort Wayne: Erika Mann, manne@pfw.edu