Cornell University

Publish open access with a special discount provided by Cornell University

Submitting corresponding authors at Cornell University are entitled to a $2,000 discount on article publishing charges (APCs) when publishing in any ACS hybrid journal.

Journal / Collection		Included in Agreement?
	ACS Central Science ACS Chemical Health & Safety	Diamond open access: Free to publish and read
ACS hybrid journals		A $2,000 discount will be automatically applied to your APC when publishing as immediate open access. The total to be paid will depend on the Creative Commons license you choose to apply to your work: CC BY license: $2,500 CC BY-NC-ND license: $2,000

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

For step-by-step instructions on how to publish open access, please see below. Your APC discount will be automatically applied during checkout.

Open access publishing instructions

Automatic article deposit in PubMed Central

Authors who elect to publish open access will automatically have their final published article sent for deposit in PubMed Central. Please note all contents accepted for US PubMed Central are automatically mirrored on Europe PMC — nothing more is required on your part. Authors publishing open access under this agreement are also free to deposit their accepted manuscript in their institutional and/or research funder’s designated open access repository.

Immediate public access to research

Some research funders, including all federal funding agencies in the United States, require authors to make a version of their research article available in a public open access repository immediately upon publication.

You may see this referred to as ‘zero-embargo green open access’.

If you or your co-authors receive any type of funding from a US federal agency such as the Department of Energy or National Institutes of Health, or any other funding organization with a zero-embargo green open access policy, then your funder(s) may require you to make a version of your manuscript available in an open access repository immediately upon publication. You will need to check the terms of all applicable grants, and/or communicate with your grant officer, to confirm if such a policy applies to your work.

Publishing open access through your institution’s agreement helps you comply with these mandates. ACS Publications will automatically submit the version of record of your article to PubMed Central, and you and your co-authors are free to post your accepted manuscript to any other repository or service required by your funder(s). Combined with public access to your research data, this should ensure compliance with any applicable open access or public access policy.