Open Access (and/or Transformative) Agreements allow NCI and the library to negotiate with publishers for access to periodicals, journals, conference proceedings, and databases. With this access, NCI-affiliated authors are not required to pay any additional charges for publication, and staff and students may read works published by these sources.
With these sorts of agreements, authors often retain copyright over their publications with a requirement that they use a Creative Commons licence.
In this guide, you will find details of such agreements reached by us here at NCI. Feel free to keep checking in, or contact us with any suggestions!
The Association for Computing Machinery is the world's largest computing society, and the ACM Digital Library is a database of literature and bibliographic resources comprising of journals, magazines, and proceedings aimed at professionals in the ICT sector, with more than 600,000 full-text articles.
NCI has reached an OA agreement with ACM whereby, having paid an annual fee, NCI-affiliated literature will be published at no additional cost to the author as part of the new ACM OPEN model, and staff and students have unlimited access to the ACM Digital Library. NCI-affiliated publications will additionally be added to NORMA, NCI's Institutional Repository, and will be given a Creative Commons licence.
More information on this here!
