World’s Largest Computing Society (ACM) Signs Major Open Access Agreement With Consortium of 30 French Universities and Research Institutions

New York, NY, September 25, 2024—ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and Couperin, an association of French higher education and research institutions, have entered into a new transformative Open Access (OA) “read and publish” agreement under the ACM OPEN program. This is one of the first-of its-kind agreements in France and demonstrates a shared commitment between ACM and Couperin to further sustainable OA publishing in computer science.

Couperin member institutions will receive unlimited access to the entirety of the ACM Digital Library under the license. The agreement also stipulates that new ACM research articles published by Couperin corresponding authors will be made OA in perpetuity in the ACM Digital Library. And while authors won’t pay a fee to share their research via the ACM Digital Library, they will retain the copyright for their work and have a choice of rights options available to them.

“With more than 30 world-renowned institutions as part of the Couperin consortium, this is one of ACM’s largest Open Access agreements to date,” noted Scott Delman, ACM’s Director of Publications. “Couperin and ACM have both committed to Open Access, and this agreement marks a major step towards achieving that goal. What is most exciting about this new license is that it benefits both Couperin authors and the global computing community. Couperin authors will be able to publish Open Access for free in the largest repository of computing research dating back decades. Publishing Open Access will result in more full-text downloads and citations for their work. And because significantly more work from Couperin institutions will now be added to the ACM Digital Library, a greater quantity of leading-edge computer science research will now be available to all.”

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