CARLI Consortium

How does a “read and green” agreement work?

This read and green agreement provides submitting corresponding authors based at any of the institutions listed below, publishing in an ACS hybrid journal, with the option to deposit their accepted manuscript into a repository with no embargo and a Creative Commons license of their choice (CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND). The author will retain copyright of the version of record.

Authors who would like to participate in the program will need to opt-in by selecting the option to retain copyright and be allowed to deposit their manuscript when completing their Journal Publishing Agreement.

There is no fee for authors to participate in this program.

Access to all ACS journals

In addition to open access publication benefits, participants in this special agreement will have full-text access to all current ACS Publications journal content.

I’m a prospective author, how do I publish?

For step-by-step instructions on how to retain copyright and deposit your accepted manuscript under your institution’s read and green agreement, please see below:

Self-archiving with an ACS read and green agreement

Optional open access for the final article

Submitting corresponding authors covered by this agreement qualify for a reduced APC rate to publish the final article as open access in ACS hybrid journals. The reduced APC rates are: