(15 Sep 2023) ACS and Elsevier, members of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing, have agreed to a legal settlement with ResearchGate that ensures copyright-compliant sharing of research articles published with ACS or Elsevier on the ResearchGate site. The lawsuits pending against ResearchGate in Germany and the United States are now resolved. The specific terms of…
(21 Sep 2023) Beginning Oct. 1, 2023, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will provide authors with a new option to satisfy funder requirements for zero-embargo green open access. Through this pathway, authors will be able to post accepted manuscripts with a CC BY license in open access repositories immediately upon acceptance. …
(7 Sep 2023) The American Chemical Society (ACS) is proud to announce that ChronosHub is joining ACS as an independent subsidiary working alongside ACS Publications to enhance the publication experience for researchers. As an ardent supporter of authors and open science, it was a natural fit for ACS to invest in ChronosHub — an innovative…
(2 Aug 2022) scite, an award-winning tool that helps students and researchers discover and understand research findings more efficiently through Smart Citations, has partnered with the American Chemical Society (ACS) to enhance the citation experience for its globally diverse readership. Pioneered by scite, Smart Citations go beyond traditional citations by showing citation statements—the in-text sentences…
(4 May 2022) A group of scholarly publishers is launching a major new website to explain research about pandemics and infectious diseases to the public, policymakers, media, and other audiences within and beyond academia. COVID and Beyond: Living with Pandemics has been sponsored by Kudos, Impact Science, the American Chemical Society, AIP Publishing, De Gruyter, Hindawi,…
(20 Jan 2022) ChronosHub has announced a collaboration with the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS Journal Finder will make institutional and consortial open access agreements and funders’ open access policies more transparent for authors. ChronosHub assisted ACS with a public journal finder tool that includes all of ACS’ more than 75 journals, now live…
(26 Dec 2020) Three academic publishers are asking for blocking of Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, two websites who provide free downloads of research publications and books to research scholars and students. The three—Elsevier Ltd., Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., American Chemical Society—have filed a petition in Delhi High Court, which is now scheduled to be…
(27 Aug 2020) In the first partnership of this type with an institution in Asia, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce a transformative open access agreement with the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan. The agreement, which will last through 2023, will help accelerate open access publishing…
(10 Aug 2020) The American Chemical Society (ACS), a leading voice in science communication and education, has launched “Untold,” a new video series in partnership with PBS Digital Studios and YouTube Learning. The limited-run series features stories about science and how chemistry, physics, astronomy and geology can provide insight into the world around us. Over…
(31 Jul 2020) The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is proud to announce the inaugural editor-in-chief for the fully open access journal JACS Au, Christopher W. Jones, Ph.D., of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). In a separate and closely aligned development, ACS is also announcing the expansion of the ACS Au portfolio with nine…