(12 Sept 2025) The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications division has announced a webinar series titled Open Science Essentials, running from September to November 2025. Each session will examine a distinct aspect of open science, featuring expert panels that address central issues and respond to audience questions. Open science encompasses practices aimed at improving transparency, accessibility, and reproducibility across…
(2 Dec 2024) Authors affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) can now make their research freely accessible through a special open access initiative by the American Chemical Society (ACS). This limited-time offer, available until December 31, 2024, allows eligible authors to publish open access in over 65 ACS hybrid journals at no cost—while token supplies last. To qualify,…
(11 July 2024) Mr. Albert G. Horvath, ACS CEO, and Dr. Helen Pain, RSC CEO, signed a memorandum of understanding in Dublin, fostering US-UK cooperation in chemistry. The agreement, aligning with UN SDGs, aims to enhance scientific exchange, support early career chemists, and promote public awareness of chemistry. Find out more here.
(5 Apr 2024) Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) and ACS Publications have signed a new read and publish agreement, effective through December 2026. The agreement provides researchers and students from 78 institutions across Thailand with full reading access to ACS’ portfolio of more than 60 hybrid journals. Affiliated submitting corresponding authors from…
(9 Nov 2023) The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Natural Science Library Service Project: Chemistry Division are pleased to announce a new “read and publish” agreement supporting open access publishing at a consortium of 25 academic institutions for 2024-26, the first of its kind in…
(10 Oct 2023) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and Open Access Australasia wish to express our joint concerns over the recent introduction of the Article Development Charge (ADC) model by the American Chemical Society (ACS). CAUL Members and others across the Australian scholarly community have expressed many concerns about this development in…
(26 Apr 2022) The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has committed its full portfolio of more than 60 hybrid journals, which offers both open access and subscription-only content, to become Plan S-aligned transformative journals. This development represents a major step in ACS’ long-standing commitment to open science, signaling a future in which all…
(7 Mar 2022) ACS (American Chemical Society) has integrated Writefull’s unique Manuscript Categorization service into its publishing workflow, using it to automate the classification of manuscripts after acceptance based on language quality. Writefull’s Manuscript Categorization API generates data that empowers publishers to increase workflow efficiency and positively impact post-acceptance production costs. ACS has now fully integrated…
(2 Feb 2022) ResearchGate has made its statement over its case with Elsevier and ACS in Germany: “In a judgment Monday, the Regional Court of Munich I dismissed the damages claims filed by the scientific publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) against ResearchGate in 2017. Remarkably, the court found, based on numerous…
(18 Jan 2022) Elsevier announced a pilot project in which the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley will syndicate selected content to the ScienceDirect platform. The articles will appear in search and browse listings. In the pilot, more than 70,000 articles in 35 journals in organic chemistry and transportation…