About me
Scott Delman is the Director of Publications at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading society in the field of Computing. In this role, he has overall responsibility for ACM’s Publications program, editorial and publishing strategy, sales and marketing activities, publishing policy development, research integrity initiatives, and open access strategy and implementation.
In 2018 and 2019, Scott worked closely with a group of university librarians from Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Iowa State University, and University of Minnesota to develop the ACM Open Read + Publish institutional Open Access model, which was launched in January 2020. In June 2020, ACM committed to transitioning to a sustainable Open Access Publisher by the end of 2025. To date, approximately 1,800 universities, government research institutes, and corporations from over 75 countries around the world have adopted the ACM Open model, and ACM is on track to complete its transition to mandatory open access publication at the end of this year.
Prior to joining ACM in 2007, Scott served in a variety of editorial, business development, and senior management roles, including Vice President of Publishing for Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vice President of Electronic Publishing for Kluwer Academic Publishers, and Vice President of Business Development for Springer Science + Business Media (now Springer-Nature). In addition, Scott has served as both Chair and Treasurer for Crossref, Treasurer of CHORUS, a member of the arXiv Member Advisory Board, and currently serves on the CHORUS Board of Directors and Portico’s Advisory Board.
