Publish OA with an ACS Read and Publish Agreement

Publishing open access with an ACS read and publish agreement

Please note: this information only applies to submitting corresponding authors covered by an active ACS read and publish agreement. The dedicated information page for your institution’s agreement will provide more detail about which ACS Publications journals are included.

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.

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 the relevant Creative Commons license. There are no charges to pay and no further action required by either you or your institution.

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. Authors publishing open access under this agreement are also free to manually deposit their accepted manuscript in their institutional and/or research funder’s designated open access repository.