US Institutions with Read and Green Agreements

Green open access is available for submitting corresponding authors at selected US institutions. Find out if your institution participates and how to make your accepted manuscript publicly available when publishing with ACS.

Participating Institutions

How ACS is helping authors fulfill Federal public access mandates

Effective July 1, 2025, authors who receive funding from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are required to deposit their accepted manuscript in PubMed Central (PMC) immediately upon publication (“self-archiving”). Other US Federal funding agencies are expected to implement similar mandates from December 31, 2025.

Authors at qualifying institutions can now publish their research in any ACS hybrid journal and immediately self-archive their manuscript in their funder or institution’s repository though an ACS read and green agreement. This means that authors can publish with ACS and remain confident they will be able to meet public access requirements without the need to pay additional fees such as an APC or ADC.

This offer is available for the duration of an institution’s All Publications Package agreement with ACS Publications. This upgrade extends through the end of 2027 with no impact on standard annual renewal increases.*

Authors that are collaborating with researchers from another organization should confirm that they will act as the submitting corresponding author to qualify for this program.

_{* We reserve the right to cancel or change this program should usage/publication volumes change or other circumstances warrant.}

Find my institution

If you are associated with any of the institutions listed below and are the submitting corresponding author, publishing in an ACS hybrid journal will automatically qualify for you for free and immediate self-archiving of your accepted manuscript in an institutional or funder repository. This is available for the duration of your institution’s subscription to the ACS All Publications Package.

I’m a prospective author, how do I publish with ACS and self-archive my manuscript?

For step-by-step instructions on how to self-archive your manuscript under this agreement, please see below:

Learn how to self-archive your article

Please note: You are not required to purchase open access to the final article in order to deposit your accepted manuscript, but you must deposit the manuscript yourself. If you do choose to purchase open access for the final article, it will automatically be submitted to PubMed Central by ACS upon publication.

List of participating institutions

Alabama A&M University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Auburn University

Benedictine University
Bob Jones University
Boston College
Boston University
Brigham Young University
Brown University

Campbell University
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Clarkson University
Clemson University
Creighton University

Delaware State University

East Tennessee State University

Florida Institute of Technology

George Washington University

Howard University

Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai
Indiana State University

Lipscomb University
Louisiana Tech University

Mayo Clinic
Medical University of South Carolina
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Middle Tennessee State University
Mississippi State University
Montana State University

New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Mexico State University
New Mexico Tech
New York Medical College
Nova Southeastern University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rochester Institute of Technology

Scripps Research Institute
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
St John’s University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Stony Brook University SUNY
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Tennessee State University
Tennessee Technological University
Texas Southern University
Tufts University
Tuskegee University

University at Buffalo State University of New York
University of Alabama
University of Alabama Birmingham
University of Alabama Huntsville
University of Alaska Fairbanks
University of Arkansas – Medical Sciences
University of Connecticut
University of Hawaii
University of Idaho
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
University of Maine
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
University of Massachusetts Medical School
University of Memphis
University of Miami
University of Michigan*
University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi Medical Center
University of Montana
University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries
University of Nevada Reno
University of New Hampshire
University of New Mexico
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of Oklahoma
University of Rhode Island
University of South Alabama
University of Tennessee Chattanooga
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
University of Tennessee Knoxville
University of Texas System (17 institutions)*
University of Tulsa
University of Vermont
Utah State University

* Please note that these institutions have a unique arrangement. Visit their dedicated pages for more details.

Wake Forest University