(12 Mar 2024) ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has relaunched Communications of the ACM (CACM), the organization’s flagship magazine, as a web-first publication, accessible to everyone without charge. First published in 1958, CACM is one of the most respected information technology magazines. Providing news, expert commentary, and peer-reviewed research, CACM straddles the lines between a popular science…
Move Marks a Major Step in ACM’s Transition to a Fully Open Access Publisher by the End of 2025 (26 Sep 2023) ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced it will transition its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) to a fully Open Access (OA) publishing model beginning January 1, 2024. Making its ICPS program Open…
(6 Jul 2022) Tsinghua University and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have agreed to a new open access (OA) publishing agreement under the ACM Open license framework. The Charlesworth Group provided essential local third-party representation to support the specific requirements of ACM and Tsinghua University. As the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, ACM supports…
(7 Apr 2022) ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that its first 50 years of publications, from 1951 through the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library. ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics.…
(14 Sep 2021) The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have signed the largest transformational open access (OA) publishing agreement in China to date. As a local third-party representing the specific requirements of ACM and CAS, The Charlesworth Group also helped facilitate this first transformational open access agreement for ACM…
(18 May 2020) The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s oldest and largest scientific computing society, has partnered with The Charlesworth Group to expand the benefits of the ACM OPEN “read and publish” Open Access (OA) licensing model in China. ACM OPEN and the Chinese OA landscape China has notably supported OA initiatives in the…
(10 Feb 2020) From Scholarly Kitchen: As many Scholarly Kitchen readers will know, in late January it was announced that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) had signed new open access (OA) publishing agreements with four major US universities. There has been lots of public conversation about these agreements, but I decided to go to the source for some…
(23 Jan 2020) ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open access agreements with several of its largest institutional customers, including the University of California (UC), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Iowa State University (ISU). The agreements, which run for three-year terms beginning January 1, 2020, cover both access…
(3 October 2017, New York, NY & Santa Clara, CA) The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest computing society, has selected Atypon’s online publishing platform, Literatum, to house The ACM Digital Library (ACM DL). The ACM DL is the official guide to computer science research and literature, comprising not only all ACM publications,…
(New York, 9 January 2014) The Association for Computing Machinery, ACM has initiated a new publishing venture aimed at filling the need for outstanding computer science books. This new series, called ACM Books, complements ACM’s current journals and conference publishing activities. It is targeted at the growing computing community, including authors, researchers, practitioners, educators, and…