Jisc Collections
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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 | APC Covered by Agreement? |
|---|---|
 ACS Central Science |
Diamond open access: Free to publish and read |
 ACS Omega |
 APC covered |
 ACS Au family (including JACS Au) |
APC covered |
| Other ACS fully open access journals | Waivers may be available: see individual journals for information |
| ACS transformative journals | APC covered |
Publish Open Access at No Cost
If you are a researcher associated with a Jisc Collections participating institution 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 how to publish open access at no cost under this agreement.
Participating Institutions
| Institution Name | Institution Name | Institution Name | Institution Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Aberdeen | Francis Crick Institute | Medical Research Council | University of St Andrews |
| Abertay University | University of Glasgow | London Metropolitan University | University of Salford |
| Aberystwyth University | Glasgow Caledonian University | Loughborough University | Scotland’s Rural College |
| Aston University | Glasgow School of Art | University of Manchester | University of Sheffield |
| Babraham Institute | Heriot-Watt University | Manchester Metropolitan University | Sheffield Hallam University |
| University of Bath | University of Hertfordshire | National Library of Scotland | University of Southampton |
| Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council | University of the Highlands and Islands | Newcastle University | Staffordshire University |
| Birkbeck, University of London | University of Huddersfield | Northumbria University | Science & Technology Facilities Council |
| University of Birmingham | University of Hull | Norwich Bioscience Institutes | University of Stirling |
| University of Bradford | Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine | University of Nottingham | University of Strathclyde |
| University of Bristol | Institute of Cancer Research | Nottingham Trent University | University of Sunderland |
| University of Cambridge | Keele University | The Open University | University of Surrey |
| University of Cardiff | University of Kent | University of Oxford | University of Sussex |
| Cranfield University | King's College London | University of Plymouth | Swansea University |
| University of Dundee | Kingston University | University of Portsmouth | University of Ulster |
| Durham University | Lancaster University | Queen Margaret University | University College London |
| University of East Anglia | University of Leeds | Queen Mary University of London | University of Warwick |
| University of Edinburgh | University of Leicester | Queen's University Belfast | UWE Bristol |
| Edinburgh Napier University | University of Lincoln | University of Reading | University of the West of Scotland |
| University of Essex | University of Liverpool | Robert Gordon University | University of Westminster |
| University of Exeter | Liverpool John Moores University | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland | University of York |
I’m a Prospective Author, How do I Publish Open Access?
Step 1
Submit your article to the ACS journal of your choice, making sure you are the submitting corresponding author.
Step 2
Ensure your institution affiliation is correct on your profile in the ACS Paragon Plus submission system.
Step 3
Check that your affiliation is stated in the body of the manuscript as the corresponding author’s affiliation.
Step 4
When your manuscript has been accepted for publication, you will be automatically prompted with the option to publish open access under your institution’s agreement.
Step 5
Confirm that “Yes, I wish to publish open access as per the agreement” and complete the Journal Publishing Agreement.
Step 6
Your institution will be alerted to your open access funding request. If the request is approved, your article will be made immediately available as open access upon publication under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. There are no charges to pay and no further action required by either you or your institution.
Video demonstration
This demo video shows you how to navigate the Journal Publishing Agreement assistant and publish your research open access under your institutional open access agreement:
Automatic Article Deposit
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 will also have the version of record automatically deposited in their institutional repository through the Jisc Publications Router.
Immediate Public Access to Research
Some research funders 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).