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Collier Library - Open Access Agreements

This guide provides information to Collier Library faculty and staff about the library's license agreements that waive APC charges for our authors publishing in some of their open access publications.

Agreement Information

In July  2023, Collier Library joined the Lyrasis consortium's group for ACM OPEN. The initial term was for three years. At the end of that term, the agreement will be reassessed by Lyrasis and ACM. 

 

Select terms from the agreement:

III. OPEN ACCESS TERMS (PUBLISHING TERMS)

  1. ACM grants to all Affiliated Corresponding Authors the ability to publish their accepted Eligible Articles with ACM on an Open Access basis with no fee charged to them as from the initial publication date of their article in the ACM Digital Library in perpetuity.
  2. Eligible Articles by Affiliated Corresponding Authors shall be eligible for open access publication under these terms if they are published on or after the Agreement Effective Date or accepted for publication prior to the Agreement’s Termination Date.
  3. ACM shall provide all Affiliated Corresponding Authors with the option to select one of the two rights assignment options of their choice: the ACM License option where all individual co-authors of the published article retain the copyright to their article and provide ACM with an exclusive license to publish their article, or the ACM Permission Release option which provides ACM with a non-exclusive license to publish their article and which allows the authors to make their published article shareable via the use of a Creative Commons license with CC-BY as the default option. The Affiliated Corresponding Author shall determine which of the above options best meets the authors’ rights-related needs.

    ACM shall provide all Affiliated Corresponding Authors with the right to retain the copyright in their articles, including on behalf of all co-authors.
     
  4. ACM shall deposit copies, on a going forward basis for the term of this Agreement, of all Eligible Articles authored by Affiliated Authors, with associated metadata, into the Participating Institutions’ open repository for open dissemination. Such deposits shall include all Affiliated-Authored Eligible Articles, even if the author is not the Corresponding Author. When the article has been published on an open access basis, the deposit shall be of the final published version; when the article has been published on a subscription basis, the deposit shall be of the final accepted manuscript.

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A copy of the full agreement can be obtained from the Acquisitions Librarian or Dean of Collier Library & Information Services.