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 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
Polymer Science & Technology
Precision Chemistry
Artificial Photosynthesis
Chem & Bio Engineering
Chemical & Biomedical Imaging
Environment & Health
Polymer Science & Technology
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 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 NameInstitution NameInstitution NameInstitution Name
Abertay UniversityManchester Metropolitan UniversityUniversity of BirminghamUniversity of Plymouth
Aberystwyth UniversityMedical Research CouncilUniversity of BradfordUniversity of Portsmouth
Aston UniversityNational Library of ScotlandUniversity of BristolUniversity of Reading
Babraham InstituteNewcastle UniversityUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of Salford
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilNorthumbria UniversityUniversity of CardiffUniversity of Sheffield
Birkbeck, University of LondonNorwich Bioscience InstitutesUniversity of DundeeUniversity of Southampton
Cranfield UniversityNottingham Trent UniversityUniversity of East AngliaUniversity of St Andrews
Durham UniversityQueen Margaret UniversityUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of Stirling
Edinburgh Napier UniversityQueen Mary University of LondonUniversity of EssexUniversity of Strathclyde
Francis Crick InstituteQueen's University BelfastUniversity of ExeterUniversity of Sunderland
Glasgow Caledonian UniversityRobert Gordon UniversityUniversity of GlasgowUniversity of Surrey
Glasgow School of ArtRoyal Conservatoire of ScotlandUniversity of HertfordshireUniversity of Sussex
Heriot-Watt UniversityScience & Technology Facilities CouncilUniversity of HuddersfieldUniversity of the Highlands and Islands
Imperial College of Science Technology and MedicineScotland’s Rural CollegeUniversity of HullUniversity of the West of Scotland
Institute of Cancer ResearchSheffield Hallam UniversityUniversity of KentUniversity of Ulster
Keele UniversityStaffordshire UniversityUniversity of LeedsUniversity of Warwick
King's College LondonSwansea UniversityUniversity of LeicesterUniversity of Westminster
Kingston UniversityTeesside UniversityUniversity of LincolnUniversity of York
Lancaster UniversityThe Open UniversityUniversity of LiverpoolUWE Bristol
Liverpool John Moores UniversityUniversity College LondonUniversity of Manchester
London Metropolitan UniversityUniversity of AberdeenUniversity of Nottingham
Loughborough UniversityUniversity of BathUniversity of Oxford

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” is checked, and complete the Journal Publishing Agreement.

JPA confirmation

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 funding from an 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 your accepted manuscript 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).