The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) have announced a collaborative open access strategic partnership that will advance shared goals for open science and enhance convenience for the MPG researcher and author community. Effective from the outset of 2019, the four-year transformative agreement provides researchers affiliated with Max Planck institutes the opportunity to disseminate immediately, under an open access license, 100 percent of their research articles upon acceptance and publication by a peer-reviewed ACS journal. MPG researchers will also benefit from full reader access to all ACS Publications journals and Chemical & Engineering News.
Of particular importance under the new agreement is that individual authors from any of the Max Planck institutes will no longer need to arrange direct payment of open access publication fees. Instead, their publishing costs will be supported through the ‘read and publish’ arrangement between ACS and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), with processing of licensing transactions handled seamlessly with ACS through novel eCommerce functionality it has implemented jointly with the Copyright Clearance Center.
The agreement is a notable development in open access publishing for ACS, as well as for the Max Planck Society’s own transition strategy. The partnership represents a significant milestone as ACS progressively develops its established and significant suite of open access publishing options and author services.
Beyond this new partnership, ACS Publications offers to all authors a range of flexible choices by which to publish open access: https://pubs.acs.org/publish. For a number of years, ACS Publications has been actively engaged in developing researcher-centric arrangements with institutions and funders to sponsor article publishing charges on behalf of authors. Through these various options, authors have published more than 20,000 open access articles within ACS journals during the past five years.
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