ACS Institutional Open Access Agreements
ACS institutional open access agreements help sustainably support the transition to open science by growing the amount of work researchers publish in open access formats, while also providing full access to subscription content in ACS Publications journals. Currently, authors at over 1,600 institutions worldwide benefit from our institutional open access agreements.
How do ACS institutional open access agreements work?
ACS institutional open access agreements replace your institution’s existing ACS Publications journals subscriptions.
These agreements combine full reading access to our trusted scientific journals, centralized coverage of open access article publishing charges (APCs), and/or immediate self-archiving (‘zero-embargo green open access’).
Our industry-leading workflow in partnership with CCC RightsLink for Scientific Communications makes the process simple for both authors and administrators: the submitting corresponding author is made aware of any applicable open access agreement when publishing their article, and administrators can easily monitor uptake and expand the program without any IT downtime.
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, and support for immediate self-archiving. These agreements include centralized coverage of open access article publishing charges (APCs), or significantly discounted APCs. Institutions 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, institutions may choose to also provide significantly discounted article publishing charges (APCs) for affiliated submitting corresponding authors. See your institution’s dedicated information page for more details.
Who has agreements with ACS?
Select a country or region to view who has institutional open access agreements with ACS.
If you think your institution is covered by an agreement but don’t see it listed, please contact us.
Select a country or region to view who has institutional open access agreements with ACS.
If you think your institution is covered by an agreement but don’t see it listed, please contact us.
Get more information about how your institution can support your open access goals
Visit the ACS Solutions Center for information on our range of institutional open access agreements.
Learn MorePublishing 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: