NUS Libraries, School of Computing, and the Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology) has worked together to enter into a 5- year Open Access agreement with ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery. For all submissions to ACM made between Jan. 1, 2021 and December 31, 2025, NUS corresponding authors have the choice to make their published works Open Access immediately at no cost to the author.
Details of ACM OPEN (ACM's Transformative Model for Open Access Publication) can be found here. Visit these following links to get a list of the journals, magazines, conferences under this deal.
If you have any questions regarding this agreement, please email us.
As an NUS-affiliated author* of an ACM journal, magazine, or conference article published between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2025, if you are a NUS corresponding author you are able to publish your article submitted Open Access at no cost to you. If you do not wish to publish Open Access, you may opt out and publish your work in ACM as subscription-only, paywalled content.
*To ensure your eligibility, please use your NUS email (emails ending with @nus.edu.sg; @duke-nus.edu.sg; @comp.nus.edu.sg; @yale-nus.edu.sg) during article submission.
Rights
NUS corresponding authors who have manuscripts accepted to an ACM journal, magazine, or conference will be sent an email informing them of the NUS-ACM agreement with a link to ACM's eRights form. On the eRights form the author is asked to specify which rights they wish to grant to ACM.
There are 3 options available:
Creative Commons License
The author will also be asked to select a CC license. Selecting a CC license is required to fully enable access, discoverability, computational uses, and other productive reuses of your work. The license you choose will be displayed on the published version of your paper in the ACM Digital Library.
After selecting 'CC license', there will be 3 check-boxes:
| CC License | Allow Remixing | Prohibit Commercial Use | Require Share-Alike |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC0 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CC BY | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CC BY-SA | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| CC BY-ND | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CC BY-NC | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| CC BY-NC-SA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CC BY-NC-ND | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
The default option, CC-BY, allows the widest range of potential distribution and reuses and is the preferred option for your institutionally-funded OA article. CC0 waives all the owner's rights under copy and database protection law. It is especially useful for releasing datasets and databases to the public for any and all purposes. This does not include your use of third-party data sets.
Please check out the link below for more information on the different CC licenses available as well as Creative Commons' license chooser (beta).
After you select a license, you will be taken through the usual process of providing permissions, third-party material, warranties on originality, and funding. Following form submission, the author’s choices are logged with ACM and you will be sent a confirmation email with your rights choices.