Read and Publish: ACM OPEN

This guide covers how academics can access journals the library subscribes to, and we support our researchers to publish gold open access papers in these journals.

BCU has subscription to ACM Open for the period of 2023-2025. ACM Open is the transformative read and publish model of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), offering our staff and students unlimited open access publishing in their journals, conferences and magazines and unlimited read access to the full text contents of ACM Digital Library, the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology. Check the eligibility requirements and submission procedures below. 

Criteria and restrictions

Author eligibility

The corresponding author's primary affiliation must be with Birmingham City University (BCU).

 

Article eligibility

Peer reviewed research articles.

 

Journal eligibility

Please view the list of eligible publications including conference proceedings, journals and magazines.

 

How to access

When submitting your manuscript for publication in an ACM conference or journal:

  1. Identify yourself as the corresponding author
  2. State your primary affiliation as BCU
  3. Provide your BCU email address

 

As corresponding author you will receive a confirmation email including a link to the ACM eRights form:

  1. Review the form information
  2. Select your rights and permissions

 

Prior to ACM publishing your work, as corresponding author you will receive a confirmation email.

 

More information

Please visit the ACM OPEN Journals web page or download and read the ACM OPEN Journals Author Workflow.