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OPEN4 NEW WAYS ACS IS

The American Chemical Society announces a bold and

comprehensive program of Open Access initiatives

OPENACCESSINITIATIVES

NEW ACS

The American Chemical Society is pleased to announce a major new commitment to support open access, designed to assist authors in meeting evolving requirements from their research funders and institutions.

The program consists of four key components.

ACS Central Science A new journal that’s free to both readers and authors To be led by a renowned scientist and international editorial board and to be introduced during 2014, this new, highly selective peer-reviewed journal will publish exceptional multidisciplinary papers across the broad spectrum of the chemical sciences. All articles will be freely available online immediately upon publication, with no article publishing charges.

ACS Editors’ Choice Free public access to new research of importance to the global community Starting January 2014, based on recommendations provided by the scientific Editors of ACS journals from around the world, a panel of ACS editors will select and feature one article each day that exemplifies the Society’s commitment to improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry. These articles will remain open for all to access and read.

ACS Author Rewards Encouraging ACS authors to choose open access with a $60-million stimulus program Recognizing that research communities may require time to fund and transition to new open access publishing models, ACS will sponsor a direct-to-author open access stimulus program entitled ACS Author Rewards. During 2014, ACS will reward each Corresponding Author of every article published that year with publishing credits for a total value of $1,500 per publication. These credits can be used to fund any ACS open access publishing option of the author’s choosing within the next three years. Given the nearly 40,000 articles published across the Society’s portfolio of journals annually, this stimulus program presents the research community with a potential savings on the order of $60 million.

ACS AuthorChoice Expanded to include new options to help authors meet open access requirements Since 2006, ACS has offered the ACS AuthorChoice option for authors to license immediate open availability of their published articles. Effective in 2014, ACS AuthorChoice is being expanded to offer authors a much wider range of options, such as Creative Commons licenses and provisions for embargoed open access, coupled with Certified Article Deposit programs. One-time fees will be as low as $750 for ACS members at subscribing institutions. Authors opting for ACS AuthorChoice can rely upon ACS to help manage the process of compliance with funder open access requirements.

For details go to www.acsopenaccess.org

> RAPID PUBLICATION – submission to web publication in 4 to 6 weeks for Letters journals, facilitated by the ACS Publications state-of-the-art digital publishing platform.

> JUST ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS – option to have your accepted, unredacted manuscript posted online within 24 hours of acceptance (available for most ACS journals).

> NO PUBLICATION CHARGES – no author page, color, submission, or cover art charges.

> HIGHEST EDITORIAL STANDARDS – fast and informed peer review and publication decision-making by Editors who are themselves distinguished, active researchers.

> BROAD DISSEMINATION – researchers at over 5,000 institutions worldwide will have access to your published work.

> MEDIA COVERAGE – research as described in ACS journal articles regularly appears in leading news media outlets.

> ACS CHEMWORX – this free, integrated research environment combines personal article library storage and document sharing capabilities with professional networking, group and individual task management, and manuscript preparation tools in a single cloud-based web interface, accessible from anywhere. Go to acschemworx.org.

> ACS ARTICLES ON REQUEST – share up to 50 free e-prints of your published article with a unique link you can send to colleagues or post on your website immediately upon publication. After 12 months, share unlimited e-prints. And coming soon, ACS authors will be able to share articles freely with their collaborators and other colleagues networked within the ACS ChemWorx environment.

Go to pubs.acs.org/4authors

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