UVM Libraries is participating in a Read & Green Agreement with the publisher American Chemical Society. This agreement allows you to:

• Read all of the ACS journals
• Pay a discounted Author Processing Charge (APC) for publishing your article OA in a hybrid journal
  • A hybrid journal includes both OA and traditionally closed articles
• Immediately self-archive published articles in government and/or institutional repositories such as Pubmed Central or UVM's Scholarworks

This agreement covers all of the hybrid journals of the American Chemical Society.

The fully OA journals have a range of APC costs and are not included in the APC credit discount. Many of them offer separate discounts at various times; see the ACS site and individual journals for more information.

The Article Processing Fee for hybrid journals is reduced to:

• $2000 for a Creative Commons CC-BY license
• $1500 for a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license

ACS members with individual premium memberships will qualify for an additional $250 dollar discount.

Authors may choose which license they prefer.

You must submit your article using your UVM or UVM Medical Center email address, and/or list your institutional affiliation as one of these two entities. 

Your affiliation must be current on the date your article is accepted.

After your article has been accepted, American Chemical Society will charge you the discounted APC by default if you choose to publish Open Access.

ACS will automatically submit your paid OA article to PMC for you when your article is published. 

If you choose not to publish OA, you must submit your article to PMC or other federal depositories yourself, and you may do so immediately upon publication.

Yes.  If you pay the APC to publish your article OA, it meets the requirements.  If you do not do that and instead self-archive your article in PMC or the required federal depository, it meets the requirements.

No. You do not have to be first author. 

You DO have to be the corresponding author - other types of contribution are not sufficient.  

No. The process of submitting an article for publication is identical until after it has been reviewed and accepted.

No.  Neither this agreement nor the Libraries have any impact on article acceptance.

Authors keep their copyright, but allow others to access or use their work without consultation or fees under one of several standard Creative Commons licenses. Works licensed under a Creative Commons License must still be cited when used. 

"A creative commons license is a license issued by the copyright owner to allow anyone in the world to use his or her copyright work in any manner consistent with that license. Creative Commons licenses are essentially standard form license agreements which can be attached to a work to enable its use under certain circumstances without the need to contact the author or negotiate terms of use."

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• University of Vermont
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Students

No. The discount is only available to current UVM employees or students. The additional ACS discount is only available to ACS members.

The corresponding author on a covered article must be a UVM affiliate; however, other authors of the same article may have different affiliations. 

UVM is beginning to add more agreements like this one. Find out more about them on the Library's Open Access Publishing Support Guide.