The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden have announced a transformative open access agreement that supports publishing for authors affiliated at 21 academic member institutions, including universities, university colleges and government-funded research institutions. Under the three-year agreement, authors will receive full article publishing charge support to publish journal articles under an open access license in any of ACS’ more than 60 premier journals.
Over the course of the agreement, there is the potential to make 100% of articles published by authors in the consortium open access in ACS journals. Swedish authors will benefit from a streamlined workflow solution that simplifies the open access licensing and approvals process. ACS will seamlessly process licensing transactions through novel eCommerce functionality implemented jointly with the Copyright Clearance Center.
ACS has signed open access agreements in eight countries offering a blend of publishing options to over 150 institutions worldwide, including Germany’s Max Planck Institutes and the U.K.’s JISC consortia. ACS is committed to open access agreements that help institutions accelerate open access publication in the global community of authors and researchers. Beyond this new partnership, ACS Publications offers a range of flexible choices by which authors can publish open access. Through these various options, authors have published more than 25,000 open access articles within ACS journals.
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