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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	Diamond open access: Free to publish and read
	ACS Omega	APC covered
	ACS Au family (including JACS Au)	APC covered
	Artificial Photosynthesis Chem & Bio Engineering Chemical & Biomedical Imaging Environment & Health Photon Science Polymer Science & Technology Precision Chemistry	Waivers available: see individual journals for information
ACS hybrid journals		APC covered

Publish open access at no cost

If you are associated with any of the institutional accounts below and are the submitting corresponding author, you may 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
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań University	Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences	Rzeszow University of Technology
AGH University of Science and Technology	Jagiellonian University	Silesian University of Technology
Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences	Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa	Tadeusz Kosciuszko Cracow University of Technology
Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences	Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences	University of Bialystok
Gdańsk University of Technology, Polish Academy of Sciences	Lodz University of Technology	University of Gdansk
Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences	Łukasiewicz Research Network - PORT Polish Center for Technology Development	University of Life Sciences, Lublin
Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences	Maria Curie-Sklodowska University	University of Lodz
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences	Medical University of Bialystok	University of Science and Technology Bydgoszcz
Institute of Chemical Engineering	Medical University of Lodz	University of Silesia
Institute of Environmental Protection, National Research Institute	Medical University of Lublin	University of Warsaw
Institute of Heavy Organic Synthesis Blachownia	Medical University of Silesia	University of Wroclaw
Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research, Polish Academy of Sciences	Medical University of Warsaw	University of Zielona Gora
Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences	Military University of Technology	Warsaw University of Technology
Institute of Nuclear Chemistry & Technology	Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences	West Pomeranian University of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences	Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun	Wroclaw Medical University
Institute of Organic Industry	Opole University	Wroclaw University of Economics and Business
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences	Poznan University of Technology	Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

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 Publishing Center.

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

Note: Authors publishing in a gold (fully open access) journal will not be required to complete this step.
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 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 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).