Open Access Publishing

American Chemical Society

Publish open access at no cost

If you are a researcher associated with Georgetown University and are the submitting corresponding author, you will have the opportunity to publish your research in any ACS journal under a CC BY open access license with your institution’s support.

Step 1

Submit your article to the ACS journal of your choice, making sure you are the submitting corresponding author.

Step 2

Ensure your institution affiliation is correct on your profile in the ACS Publishing Center.

Step 3

Check that your affiliation is stated in the body of the manuscript as the corresponding author’s affiliation.

Step 4

When your manuscript has been accepted for publication, you will be automatically prompted with the option to publish open access under your institution’s agreement.

Step 5

Note: Authors publishing in a gold (fully open access) journal will not be required to complete this step.

Confirm that “Yes, I wish to publish open access as per the agreement” is checked, and complete the Journal Publishing Agreement.

Authors are encouraged to ask the publisher if their article is eligible to be added into an institutional repository.  If so,  please contact the DigitalGeorgetown institutional repository.

Authors that participate are asked to include the acknowledgement statement: funding support is in part from Georgetown University Library.