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? | |
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ACS Central Science | Diamond open access: Free to publish and read | |
ACS Omega | APC covered | |
ACS Au family (including JACS Au) | APC covered | |
Artificial PhotosynthesisChem & Bio EngineeringChemical & Biomedical ImagingEnvironment & HealthPolymer Science & TechnologyPrecision Chemistry | Waivers available: see individual journals for information | |
ACS hybrid / 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 |
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Abertay University | Manchester Metropolitan University | University of Birmingham | University of Plymouth |
Aberystwyth University | Medical Research Council | University of Bradford | University of Portsmouth |
Aston University | National Library of Scotland | University of Bristol | University of Reading |
Babraham Institute | Newcastle University | University of Cambridge | University of Salford |
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council | Northumbria University | University of Cardiff | University of Sheffield |
Birkbeck, University of London | Norwich Bioscience Institutes | University of Dundee | University of Southampton |
Cranfield University | Nottingham Trent University | University of East Anglia | University of St Andrews |
Durham University | Queen Margaret University | University of Edinburgh | University of Stirling |
Edinburgh Napier University | Queen Mary University of London | University of Essex | University of Strathclyde |
Francis Crick Institute | Queen's University Belfast | University of Exeter | University of Sunderland |
Glasgow Caledonian University | Robert Gordon University | University of Glasgow | University of Surrey |
Glasgow School of Art | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland | University of Hertfordshire | University of Sussex |
Heriot-Watt University | Science & Technology Facilities Council | University of Huddersfield | University of the Highlands and Islands |
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine | Scotland’s Rural College | University of Hull | University of the West of Scotland |
Institute of Cancer Research | Sheffield Hallam University | University of Kent | University of Ulster |
Keele University | Staffordshire University | University of Leeds | University of Warwick |
King's College London | Swansea University | University of Leicester | University of Westminster |
Kingston University | Teesside University | University of Lincoln | University of York |
Lancaster University | The Open University | University of Liverpool | UWE Bristol |
Liverpool John Moores University | University College London | University of Manchester | |
London Metropolitan University | University of Aberdeen | University of Nottingham | |
Loughborough University | University of Bath | University 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.
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).