Tsinghua University and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have agreed to a new open access (OA) publishing agreement under the ACM Open license framework. The Charlesworth Group provided essential local third-party representation to support the specific requirements of ACM and Tsinghua University.
As the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, ACM supports the scientific community’s mission to share impactful research that shapes the world. Their most recent partnership is with one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Tsinghua University is committed to global advancement and well-being through teaching, research, and innovation. Together, ACM and Tsinghua University are improving access to research and creating opportunities for new research to be openly available.
Under the new agreement, all researchers at Tsinghua University will receive unlimited and unrestricted access to the ACM Digital Library, the world's largest repository of computing research. The new agreement also stipulates that for all research articles newly published by Tsinghua University eligible corresponding authors in any ACM publication, the affiliated authors of Tsinghua University could choose OA at the time of publication at no cost to authors. These articles will also be eligible for the full range of Creative Commons author rights.
With approximately 250 research articles published in ACM publications annually, Tsinghua is a significant contributor to ACM's publications worldwide. This new agreement represents another step towards ACM's stated goal of becoming a fully OA research publisher.
