American Chemical Society Preprint Policy

Each ACS journal has a specific policy on publishing preprints. Details of the respective prior publication policies are available at
https://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/prior/index.html

Authors are allowed to deposit an initial draft of their manuscript in a preprint service such as ChemRxiv or arXiv prior to submission to the following journals:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • ACS Central Science
  • ACS Nano
  • ACS Photonics
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Nano Letters

Prior publication is not allowed:

  • Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Chemical Reviews
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Von Grünem Weg bis OA-Tranformation

Der Kooperative Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) veröffentlicht aus Anlass der International Open Access Week fünf Sonderausgaben des KOBV-Newsletters über ausgewählte Aspekte des Open Access:

– Open-Access-Transformation (Ausgabe 1)
– Der Grüne Weg (Ausgabe 2)
– Rechtsfragen und Beratung (Ausgabe 3)
– Der Goldene Weg (Ausgabe 4)
– Open-Access-Strategien  (Ausgabe 5)

GDCh and Open Access

The Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society) published a position paper on the future of scientific publishing and the transformation to Open Access. It recommends its authors the green open access model. This means to archive articles that are published in conventional journals in institutions’ own e-print archives (e.g. MPG PuRe) allowing free access.

GDCh Position Paper: On the Future of Scientific Publishing (December 2013)
GDCh-Positionspapier: Zur Zukunft des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens (Dezember 2013)

OA Week 2011 – Green Road and Golden Road

The principle of open access publication is seen by many involved as an alternative publication model. Open access refers to unrestricted access to scientific information on the internet.

Two methods are used here: on the one hand, to archive articles that are published in conventional journals in institutions’ own e-print archives (repositories), which are sustained by the respective institutions (open access green), allowing free access and, on the other, the specific promotion of open access journals (open access gold).