The University of Bologna has joined the national CARE-CRUI agreement signed with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This transformative agreement covers both the subscription fees for accessing the contents of the ACM Digital Library and the fees for publishing Open Access in the hybrid and full Open Access journals as well as in the conference proceedings included in the same collection. Therefore, authors can publish Open Access at no additional costs.

 

SUMMARY SHEET FOR PUBLICATION

 

Agreement duration: 2022-2025. Activated in July 2023.

Open Access publishing obligation: No.

Requirements for covering publishing costs: elegibility of the corresponding author (see the dedicated FAQ), journal and article type.

List of the eligible journals: 2024 list (see the specific FAQ).

Types of eligible articles: Research articles, Review articles, Conference or Proceedings papers, Short Papers, Notes/Technical Notes, Tutorials, Case Studies, Interviews, Surveys.

Available fund: unlimited fund.

Licence: see the dedicated FAQ.

Self-archiving mode (Green OA): authors can deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) (post-print) version of their articles in the institutional repository or publish it on their personal websites. The publication will be freely accessible.

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

Which authors may be eligible?

Only corresponding authors already affiliated with the University of Bologna on the date the article is accepted are eligible, including academics with fixed-term contracts such as PhD students, research fellows, fixed-term assistant professors, specialisation school students, etc..

In such cases, authors must submit their contributions via their institutional email address (i.e.: name.surname@unibo.it or name.surname@studio.unibo.it).

Which are the eligible journals?

Authors can publish in the hybrid journals, full Open Access journals and conference proceedings included in the ACM Digital Library.

Here is the list of the eligible journals in 2024.

Under which kind of licence will articles be published?

The standard licence is the CC BY. The author may, however, opt for one of the other Creative Commons licences allowed by the journal on which the article is published. 

Authors retain all rights relating to their articles, which may be deposited in the University of Bologna institutional repository (IRIS) and published on the authors’ personal websites. Open access is granted right after the publication without any embargo period.

When will the article be published Open Access?

Once the corresponding author has completed the post-acceptance procedure and opted for the Open Access mode.

Which costs are excluded from the coverage of the agreement?

Any other publication fees (i.e.: submission fees, color pages, overlength pages fees etc.) are not covered by the agreement.

Where can I find more information about the agreement?