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Publish open access at no cost
If you are a researcher associated with an OhioLINK member institution listed below, and are the submitting corresponding author, you will have the opportunity to publish your research in the indicated ACS journals under a CC BY open access license with your institution’s support.
Note that different institutions have different eligibility under this agreement. See below for more information.
Institutions eligible for OA support when publishing in hybrid journals only
Authors at the following institutions will have full read access to all ACS journals.
They can also publish open access under a CC BY license at no cost to them in our hybrid journals (titles which publish a combination of open access and subscription content).
This agreement does not cover the cost of publishing in our OA-only journals for the institutions listed below.
| Institution Name | Institution Name |
|---|---|
| Ashland University | Northeast Ohio Medical University |
| Bowling Green State University | Ohio State University |
| Case Western Reserve University | Ohio University |
| Cleveland Clinic | University of Akron |
| Franklin University | University of Cincinnati |
| Kent State | University of Dayton |
| Mercy College of Ohio | University of Toledo & University of Toledo Health Science Campus |
| Miami University | Wright State University |
Which ACS journals are included?
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 when selecting a CC BY open access license.
| Journal / Collection | Included in Agreement? | |
|---|---|---|
 | ACS Central Science | Diamond open access: Free to publish and read |
 | ACS Omega |  Not included |
 | ACS Au family (including JACS Au) | Not included |
       | Artificial PhotosynthesisChem & Bio EngineeringChemical & Biomedical ImagingEnvironment & HealthPhoton SciencePolymer Science & TechnologyPrecision Chemistry | Waivers available: see individual journals for information |
| ACS hybrid journals |  APC covered | |
Institutions eligible for OA support when publishing in any ACS journal
Authors at the following institutions will have full read access to all ACS journals.
They can also publish open access under a CC BY license at no cost to them in any ACS journal.
| Institution Name | Institution Name | Institution Name |
|---|---|---|
| Antioch College | Hocking College | Owens Community College |
| Antioch University | John Carroll University | Rhodes State College |
| Baldwin Wallace University | Kenyon College | Shawnee State University |
| Belmont College | Lakeland Community College | Sinclair Community College |
| Bluffton University | Lorain County Community College | Southern State Community College |
| Capital University | Lourdes University | Stark State College |
| Cedarville University | Malone University | State Library of Ohio |
| Central Ohio Technical College | Marietta College | Terra Community College |
| Central State University | Marion Technical College | Tiffin University |
| Cincinnati State Technical & Community College | Methodist Theological School of Ohio | University of Findlay |
| Clark State College | Mount Saint Joseph University | University of Mount Union |
| Cleveland State University | Mount Vernon Nazarene University | University of Rio Grande |
| College of Wooster | Muskingum University | Ursuline College |
| Columbus State Community College | North Central State College | Walsh University |
| Cuyahoga Community College | Northwest State Community College | Washington State Community College |
| Defiance College | Oberlin College | Wilmington College |
| Denison University | Ohio Christian University | Wittenberg University |
| Edison Community College | Ohio Dominican University | Xavier University |
| Franciscan University of Steubenville | Ohio Northern University | Youngstown State University |
| Heidelberg University | Ohio Wesleyan University | Zane State College |
| Hiram College | Otterbein University |
Which ACS journals are included?
The table below shows the ACS journals where the article publishing charge (APC) should be covered by participating institutions. Unless otherwise stated, this agreement covers 100% of the APC.
| Journal / Collection | Included in Agreement? | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 & HealthPhoton SciencePolymer Science & TechnologyPrecision Chemistry | Waivers available: see individual journals for information |
| ACS hybrid journals | APC covered | |
I’m a prospective author, how do I publish open access?
For step-by-step instructions on how to publish open access under your institution’s read and publish agreement, please see below:
Open access publishing instructions
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. 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 are also free to deposit their accepted manuscript 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 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.