The UMass Amherst Libraries (Libraries) have partnered with the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) and the College of Engineering in an open-access agreement with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
Under the terms of this agreement, UMass Amherst readers can now access all ACM publications, and UMass Amherst corresponding authors will have their works published with open-access licenses at no cost to the author. ACM has a stated goal of publishing all its journals, magazines and conference proceedings open access by 2026. The libraries have signed a five-year agreement with ACM, made possible by additional funding from CICS and COE.
Over the past five years, an average of 62 UMass corresponding authors have published with ACM annually. In making future publications openly licensed, ACM data suggests UMass authors will benefit from 2.7-3.7 times more readership and 25% more citations than paywalled publications. The UMass-ACM agreement will make open access publication of all paper types (see complete list here) seamless for corresponding authors using their UMass Amherst-affiliated email address for accepted manuscripts starting in 2024.
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