Open Access Publishing Model for ICPS

ACM has introduced a new Open Access publishing model for ICPS. Please refer to the FAQs for an overview of the new model. Full details of the publishing model are provided below.

New OA publishing model for ICPS

In the old publication model for ICPS, ACM charged a production fee to conference organizers, but no publication fees were charged to individual authors. In the new model, all ICPS papers published in the ACM Digital Library (DL) are published OA, and production/OA fees are no longer charged to conference organizers. Papers that fall into the following categories will be published in the DL at no charge:

• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution participating in ACM’s transformative ACM Open model.
  • A list of the 3,000+ institutions currently participating in ACM Open is available here.
  • Note that, by the end of 2026, we expect roughly 80% of papers published in the DL to be covered by ACM Open agreements.
• If the country in which your institution is located is on this list of countries covered by ACM’s agreements with EIFL and Research4Life and/or classified by the World Bank as low-income countries.

For papers that do not fall into the above categories, the following scale of article processing charges (APCs) will apply:

• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country (as defined by the World Bank) and at least one of the paper’s authors is an ACM member, the applicable APC is $125 per paper.
• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country (as defined by the World Bank) but none of the paper’s authors is an ACM member, the applicable APC is $175 per paper.
• If the corresponding author is not affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country but at least one of the paper’s authors is an ACM member, the applicable APC is $250 per paper.
• In all other cases, the applicable APC is $350 per paper.

Note also that authors without access to APC funding may be eligible for a needs-based waiver. To request a needs-based waiver, please write to [email protected].

New deadlines for ICPS approval and publication

For all conferences that fall under the new model, and for which the proceedings publication is to be simultaneous with the conference, the following new deadlines will apply:

• Applications to publish in ICPS should be submitted as early as possible, and must be received at least 60 days prior to the paper submission deadline of the conference, to allow sufficient time for review and approval of applications.
• Metadata upload into the rights system for approved articles must be completed no later than 70 days before the start of the conference, and all applicable APCs are due for payment by this deadline.
• Payment of all applicable APCs is due 35 days before the start date of the conference. Papers that miss this deadline will not be eligible for publication in the proceedings.