GALILEO Consortium

United States

Which ACS journals are included in this agreement?

The table below shows the ACS journals where your article publishing charge (APC) should be covered by your institution. Unless otherwise stated, this agreement covers 100% of the APC.

Journal / Collection Included in Agreement?
ACS Central Science included ACS Central Science Diamond open access: Free to publish and read
ACS Omega included ACS Omega Tick APC covered
ACS Au journals included ACS Au family (including JACS Au) Tick APC covered
Artificial Photosynthesis
Chem & Bio Engineering
Chemical & Biomedical Imaging
Environment & Health
Precision Chemistry
Artificial Photosynthesis
Chem & Bio Engineering
Chemical & Biomedical Imaging
Environment & Health
Precision Chemistry
Waivers available: see individual journals for information
ACS hybrid / transformative journals Tick APC covered

 

Publish open access at no cost

If you are a researcher associated with a participating member of the GALILEO Consortium and are the submitting corresponding author, you will have the opportunity to publish your research in any ACS journal under a CC BY open access license with your institution’s support.

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.

Scroll down to find out if your school is a participating member and how to publish open access at no cost under this agreement.

Participating institutions

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural CollegeEmory UniversityPacific College of Technology
Agnes Scott CollegeFort Valley State UniversityPaine College
Albany State UniversityGeorgia Central UniversityPiedmont College
Albany Technical CollegeGeorgia College & State UniversityPoint University
Andrew CollegeGeorgia Gwinnett CollegeReinhardt College
Athens Technical CollegeGeorgia Highlands CollegeRichmont Graduate University
Atlanta Metropolitan State CollegeGeorgia Institute of TechnologySavannah State University
Atlanta Technical CollegeGeorgia Military CollegeSavannah Technical College
Atlanta University CenterGeorgia Northwestern Technical CollegeShorter University
Atlanta's John Marshall Law SchoolGeorgia Piedmont Technical CollegeSouth Georgia State College
Augusta Technical CollegeGeorgia Southern UniversitySouth Georgia Technical College
Augusta UniversityGeorgia Southwestern State UniversitySoutheastern Technical College
Berry CollegeGeorgia State UniversitySouthern Crescent Technical College
Beulah Heights UniversityGordon State CollegeSouthern Regional Technical College
Bruneau UniversityGwinnett Technical CollegeThomas University
Brewton-Parker CollegeKennesaw State UniversityToccoa Falls College
Central Georgia Technical CollegeLagrange CollegeTruett McConnell University
Chattahoochee Technical CollegeLanier Technical CollegeUnderwood University
Clayton State UniversityLife UniversityUniversity of Georgia
Coastal Pines Technical CollegeLuther Rice College & SeminaryUniversity of North Georgia
College of Coastal GeorgiaMercer UniversityValdosta State University
Columbia Theological SeminaryMiddle Georgia State UniversityWesleyan College
Columbus State UniversityMorehouse School Of MedicineWest Georgia Technical College
Columbus Technical CollegeNorth Georgia Technical CollegeWiregrass Georgia Technical College
Dalton State CollegeOconee Fall Line Technical CollegeYoung Harris College
East Georgia State CollegeOgeechee Technical College
Emmanuel CollegeOglethorpe University

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

  1. During Submission via ACS Paragon Plus, as a corresponding author, select your institution from a drop-down box and use your affiliated university email address.
  2. Check that your institution’s affiliation is stated in the body of the manuscript as the corresponding author’s affiliation.
  3. Complete the Journal Publishing Agreement to publish open access and retain copyright. Click on the ‘Order Open Access’ link in the JPA tool to submit the open access funding request.
  4. Alternatively, you can enter your manuscript DOI at https://publish.acs.org/publish/research_share_and_oa under the ACS Open Access Licenses And Programs section to submit the open access funding request.
  5. Your institution will be alerted of your open access funding request and, if the request is approved, your work will be published as ACS open access via a CC BY 4.0 license and made freely available on the ACS Publications website at no additional cost to you.


Video demonstrations

Different institutions within your consortium have slightly different publishing workflows.

Our first demo video shows you how to navigate the Journal Publishing Agreement assistant and publish your research open access under an institutional open access agreement.

This second video shows you how to navigate the Journal Publishing Agreement assistant and publish your research open access under an institutional open access agreement with an added demo of the Copyright Clearance Center RightsLink® system.

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. Authors publishing open access under this agreement are also free to deposit the version of record 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 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 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 your grant, and/or communicate with your grant officer, to confirm if such a policy applies to your work.

Publishing open access through your institution’s read and publish agreement is compliant 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 it to any other repository or service required by your funder(s). Combined with public access to your research data, this will ensure compliance with any applicable zero-embargo green open access policy.

For authors who do not already benefit from a read and publish agreement, ACS Publications’ zero-embargo green open access option expands the choices beyond the free 12-month embargo route for those authors to comply with funder mandates by posting their accepted manuscript with a CC BY license to a repository immediately upon acceptance, following payment of an article development charge (ADC).