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<div class=\"umap-page-banner-overlay\"><\/div>\r\n  <div class=\"umap-page-banner-text\">\r\n    Proceedings and ACM Open Policy\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"umap-open-wrapper\">\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"umap-open-section\">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"umap-open-section-title\">\r\n      <h2>Proceedings<\/h2>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"umap-open-section-body\">\r\n\r\n      <ul class=\"umap-open-list\">\r\n\r\n        <li>\r\n          <strong>Workshop Papers:<\/strong>\r\n          workshop papers will be archived in a joint CEUR Workshop Proceedings volume.\r\n          An example is available at\r\n          <a\r\n            href=\"https:\/\/ceur-ws.org\/Vol-4206\/\"\r\n            target=\"_blank\"\r\n            rel=\"noopener\"\r\n          >\r\n            CEUR-WS Volume 4206\r\n          <\/a>.\r\n        <\/li>\r\n\r\n        <li>\r\n          <strong>All Other Submissions:<\/strong>\r\n          accepted submissions in the other conference tracks will be published in the ACM Conference Proceedings.\r\n        <\/li>\r\n\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"umap-open-section\">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"umap-open-section-title\">\r\n      <h2>ACM Open Policy<\/h2>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"umap-open-section-body\">\r\n\r\n      <div class=\"umap-open-text\">\r\n        Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including papers from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be published as 100% Open Access.\r\n      <\/div>\r\n\r\n      <div class=\"umap-open-text\">\r\n        Authors have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: publication through the <strong>ACM Open institutional model<\/strong> or payment of an <strong>Article Processing Charge (APC)<\/strong>.\r\n      <\/div>\r\n\r\n      <div class=\"umap-open-alert\">\r\n        <strong>ACM Open Coverage:<\/strong>\r\n        approximately 3,000 institutions are already participating in ACM Open. As a result, the majority of papers published through ACM-sponsored conferences are not expected to require an APC from authors or conferences. 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