Why Start a Journal with ACM?
ACM has embarked on an aggressive program to develop new journals in all areas of computer science and information technology. We have streamlined our decision-making process and we can reach a decision on starting a journal within a month of receiving a proposal. In addition, here are some other compelling reasons to think of ACM when you are considering starting a journal, or moving a journal: • ACM journals are all regarded as among the highest quality in their respective fields. • ACM, as a nonprofit association, offers extremely low subscription rates for its journals, averaging $50 per annual subscriptions to individuals (ACM members) and $160 to institutions -an order of magnitude less than many commercial CS publishers charge. • ACM has developed an industry-leading copyright policy, that maximizes authors’ rights as well as providing intellectual-property protection. • ACM has developed a Rights and Responsibilities document that makes explicit what authors, editors and others
