In 2024, ACM will be introducing 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.

• If your institution is a member of the ACM Open program (step 1), your paper will be published at no charge. You will not be required to pay an APC.
• If your institution is located in one of the countries referenced in step 2, your paper will be published at no charge. You will not be required to pay an APC.
• If you are affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country (step 3) and you or at least one of your coauthors is an ACM member (step 4), you will be required to pay an APC of $350 per paper.
• If you are affiliated with an institution in a lower-middle-income country (step 3) but neither you nor any of your coauthors is an ACM member (step 4), you will be required to pay an APC of $500 per paper.
• If you are not affiliated with an institution in one of the countries listed in steps 2 and 3 but you or at least one of your coauthors is an ACM member, you will be required to pay an APC of $700 per paper.
• If none of the above applies to you, you will be required to pay an APC of $1,000 per paper.

6. If all steps 1-5,  have been exhausted then you need to check back with your home institution as many will have established open access publishing funding.

7. If you do not have access to APC funding or otherwise qualify for an APC waiver, you may be eligible for a needs-based waiver. To request a needs-based waiver (after LAK25 acceptance), please follow the instructions here.