Agreement duration: The UNSW OA publishing agreement is from 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2028.
Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement from 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2028 are eligible to be published open access.
Summary: ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing the full-text collection of all ACM publications, including Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. This is an uncapped agreement. There is no limit to the number of articles that can be published OA.
Titles included: 2026 ACM Publishing Title list
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in all of ACM's hybrid and gold journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).
Information for authors: See the ACM Publishing website for more information. This agreement includes all current UNSW researchers including HDR candidates and must use their UNSW institutional email address (name@unsw.edu.au) to be eligible and to help verify affiliation. Articles may be published open access under a CC BY or CC BY-NC licence type. This is the workflow for ACM article submission.
For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.
Eligible article types: Interview, Note, Research Article, Short Paper, Survey, Technical Note, Tutorial
Sharing via repositories: UNSW corresponding authors can comply with the Open Access policy by retaining the rights to the Author Accepted Manuscript and depositing a copy into UNSWorks (via ROS) using a CC BY licence.
How to submit your article for open access publishing:
The UNSW corresponding author should follow the usual article submission process via the publisher website
On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
On acceptance of the manuscript, the payment system will allow UNSW corresponding authors to choose UNSW as their institution and remove the open access fee. Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC BY licence.
To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to either the Published Version of Record or Author Accepted Manuscript, and deposit into UNSWorks using a CC BY licence.
Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) or email addresses affiliated with other organisations, research centres or institutes. Otherwise they may be ineligible under the terms of this agreement.
For any queries about this open access publishing agreement please use this short form.