The publishing program has been closed for the current year.

ACS Open Access Publishing Program 2023–2025 – Virtual Library of Science
List of ACS journals (hybrid and gold open access) covered by the program (xlsx for download)

The program is intended for corresponding authors affiliated with institutions participating in the consortium. In 2025, the program covers 90 journals published by ACS (all titles from the list of journals available in 2025 are covered by the open publishing program), including 71 hybrid journals and 19 open access journals. The program includes all types of articles except: Additions and Corrections, Expressions of Concern and Retractions. The program allows open publication under the CC-BY license free of charge for authors of a certain number of articles accepted for publicatio in the current year. The pool is not divided into institutions. Articles are included in the program in the order in which they are accepted for publication (the "Manuscript Acceptance Date" is decisive, sometimes referred to in articles as the "Revised" date).

Initializing the program:

The corresponding author submitting the article completes the online form ("online manuscript submission process") in which he should select his affiliation from the list of institutions. After accepting the article for publication, the author completes the Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA) form. The form automatically recognizes whether the article is eligible for the program based on the previously indicated affiliation and offers the author OA publication under the program while retaining copyright.

Contact regarding the ACS open publishing program:

American Chemical Society: support@services.acs.org
Program administrator: wbn@icm.edu.pl