Open science built on a solid foundation
Explore how ACS Publications has supported open science through our programs, services, and products with our open science timeline.
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ACS AuthorChoice presents authors with broad open access options when publishing in ACS journals
Open access discount program for institutions and ACS members
ACS Central Science, our diamond open access journal, opens for submissions
OA stimulus program distributes over $60 million of article publishing charge credits to authors
Inaugural issue of ACS Central Science published
ACS Omega, our broad-readership fully open access journal, opens for submissions
Inaugural issue of ACS Omega published
Initial institutional open access agreement pilot with Dutch Consortia
Launch of ChemRxiv, the preprint server for chemistry, in conjunction with four partner chemistry societies
Launch of ACS read and publish agreements
Development of institutional open access workflow, in conjunction with the Copyright Clearance Center
Launch of the ACS Publishing Center, providing authors with relevant information for publishing in all ACS journals
ACS read and publish agreements cover more than 100 institutions
JACS Au, the fully open access sister publication to the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is announced
SciMeetings, a fully open access platform for scientific posters and presentations, launches
ACS Open Science resource center, an information hub for all ACS’ initiatives in open science and open access, comes online
The ACS Au family of fully open access journals are announced
Authors now offered Creative Commons CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND licenses when publishing open access in ACS journals
ACS Publications signs DORA (Declaration on Research Assessment)
Launch of ACS Publications’ new Research Data Policy, establishing a framework for open data
Transparent peer review pilot begins in ACS Central Science and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Over 400 institutions now covered by ACS read and publish agreements
All ACS hybrid journals certified as Transformative Journals under Plan S
ACS Publications joins OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association)
Precision Chemistry, ACS’ first journal published in partnership with a research institution, opens for submissions
Open access reporting through OA Switchboard goes live for institutional customers
Over 1500 institutions covered by ACS read and publish agreements
ACS read and publish agreements expand to cover over 1,000 institutions worldwide
Launch of ACS-sponsored open access for authors at participating primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs)
Inaugural issue of Precision Chemistry published
Introduction of new zero-embargo green open access option for authors
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