The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has signed a three-year transformative read-and-publish agreement with eight Canadian regional library consortia, representing 72 institutions. The agreement expands open access publishing opportunities while providing premium access to ACM Digital Library.
Member institutions will receive full access to the ACM Digital Library, including the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, which indexes material from more than 8,000 publishers, along with research, citation and scholarly discovery tools. Authors affiliated with these institutions will be able to publish unlimited open access articles in ACM journals, conference proceedings, and ICPS Proceedings without paying article processing charges.
Participating consortia include the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec (PBUQ), British Columbia Electronic Library Network (BC ELN), Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries / Conseil des bibliothèques postsecondaires de l’Atlantique (CAAL/CBUA), Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL), Manitoba Library Consortium (MLCI), Ontario Colleges Library Service (OCLS), Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), and The Alberta Library (TAL). Institutions covered range from leading computing research such as the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and the University of British Columbia.
The agreement is expected to increase the visibility of Canadian research output while contributing to global open access goals. Since ACM Open launched in 2020, more than 2,700 institutions worldwide have joined the program. The Canadian consortia agreement supports ACM’s plan to make all of its publications fully open access by January 2026.
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