Open Access Guidance for ICPS Authors

In January 2024, ACM introduced a new publishing model for conference proceedings to be published in ACM’s International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Please refer to the FAQs for an overview of the new model.

For conferences publishing in this new model, all ICPS papers will be published Open Access (OA). Many authors will qualify for free OA publishing, while others will be required to pay an applicable article processing charge (APC).

If you are the corresponding author of a paper in a conference that is to be published in ICPS, please follow these steps to determine whether you will be required to pay an APC.

1. Check to see if your institution is a member of the ACM Open program by reviewing the list of participating institutions.
2. Check to see 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.
3. Check to see if the country in which your institution is located is on this list of countries classified by the World Bank as lower middle income countries.
4. Are you or at least one of your coauthors an ACM member? Please visit this page and log in to MyACM to check your membership status. If you would like to apply for ACM membership, you may do so here.
5. Once you have determined your status based on steps 1-4, please see below for the applicable APC, if any. ACM recognizes that the payment of APCs represents a significant challenge for some authors, and has therefore introduced a temporary subsidy on 2025 APC pricing for ICPS. The subsidized pricing for 2025 is as follows:

• If you are affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country (as defined by the World Bank) and you or any of your coauthors is a member of ACM, the applicable APC is $125 per paper.
• If you are affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country but neither you nor any of your coauthors is a member of ACM, the applicable APC is $175 per paper.
• If you are not affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country but either you or one of your coauthors 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 there will be no additional discounting off these prices for ACM members. ACM will not be providing refunds for APCs that have already been paid.

Please note: For proceedings that are to be published simultaneously with the conference, the payment deadline for applicable APCs is 45 days prior to the start of the conference. The coauthors on a paper are jointly responsible for ensuring timely payment of the applicable article processing charge (APC) for that paper. If the APC remains unpaid 90 days after the initial due date, all authors on the paper will be prohibited from contributing to any ACM venue (including ACM journals, conferences, magazines, and books) until the payment is completed.