Open Access Guidance for ICPS Conference Organizers

All ICPS conference proceedings are now subject to ACM's open access publication model. Full details of the publishing model are provided below, including important deadlines for ICPS application approval and publication. Please refer also to the FAQs.

New OA Publishing Model for ICPS

All new ICPS articles will be published open access in the ACM Digital Library. The two options for payment of any applicable article processing charges (APCs) are listed in the next section.

Papers that fall into the following categories will be published in the DL at no charge:

• If the article type is not eligible for payment of an APC  (please refer to the details here of APC-eligible article types).
• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution participating in ACM’s transformative ACM Open model.
  • A list of the institutions currently participating in ACM Open is available here.
• 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, an article processing charge (APC) will apply.

To help relieve the financial burden on authors who are required to pay APCs, ACM has introduced a temporary subsidy on APC pricing for ICPS. This pricing applies to all papers that are or were processed through the ACM eRights system from 12 noon US Eastern time on March 6, 2025 to midnight US Eastern time on December 31, 2026. The subsidized pricing for 2026 is as follows:

• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle- income  country (as defined by the World Bank) and any of the authors is a member of ACM, the applicable APC is $125 per paper.
• If the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country but none of the authors is a member of ACM, 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.

Please note that ACM will not be providing refunds for APCs that have already been paid.

Payment Options

When you complete the application form for publication in ICPS, you will be asked to select one of two options:

1. The conference will pay all applicable APCs on behalf of authors.
2. Authors will be individually responsible for payment of APCs.

If you select option 1, ACM will send you a single invoice for all applicable APCs for the conference. For this option only, APCs will be charged at a heavily subsidized rate of $250 per paper.

If you select option 2, the APC pricing rules for authors described in the above section will apply.

If your application to publish in ICPS has already been approved and you would like to choose option 1, please send your request to [email protected].

New deadlines for ICPS approval and publication

For all conferences where the proceedings publication is to be simultaneous with the conference, the following new deadlines 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. If your proceeding is approved for publication in ICPS, you will be sent an email with further information for authors that must be posted on the Call for Papers page of your conference website.
• Metadata upload into the rights system for approved articles must be completed no later than 70 days before the start of the conference.
• All applicable APCs are due for payment 35 days before the start of the conference.
• Papers for which an applicable APC remains unpaid at this deadline will not be eligible for publication in the proceedings.