ACS Institutional Open Access Agreements

Types of institutional open access agreements

• Read and publish agreement:

  ACS read and publish agreements provide full access to ACS Publications’ subscription journal content, plus immediate open access publishing for affiliated corresponding authors. You can also self-archive your accepted manuscript immediately on publication.
  
  These agreements include centralized coverage of open access article publishing charges (APCs) through your institution, or significantly discounted APCs. Your institution may provide APC coverage for some, or all, ACS Publications journals. See your institution’s dedicated information page for more details.

• Read and green agreement:

  ACS read and green agreements provide full access to ACS Publications’ subscription journal content, plus support for immediate self-archiving of the accepted manuscript in institutional, subject, and/or funder repositories.
  
  In some cases, your institution may also provide significantly discounted article publishing charges (APCs) for affiliated submitting corresponding authors. See your institution’s dedicated information page for more details.

Publishing under an ACS institutional open access agreement

Depending on the type of agreement provided by your institution, your route to open access will fall under one of three routes:

• Publishing immediate OA under an ACS read and publish agreement with an automated approval process
• Publishing immediate OA under an ACS read and publish agreement with a manual checkout process via CCC RightsLink®
• Self-archiving with an ACS read and green agreement