The Unisa Library signed an agreement with the American Chemical Society for open access publishing in the ACS hybrid journals for the period 2023 - 2025.
Articles published by researchers where the submitting corresponding author is affiliated with Unisa, may publish their articles in any ACS transformative journal under a CC-BY open access license. Publication charges for ACS transformative journals will be fully covered. Authors publishing in ACS Au journals will received a reduced APC of $3,000.00.
What journals are eligible under this agreement:
How to publish open access in ACS Journals
- Submit your article to the ACS journal of your choice, making sure that you are the corresponding author.
- Ensure your institution affiliation is correct on your profile in the ACS Paragon Plus submission system
- Check that your affiliation is stated in the body of the manuscript as the corresponding author’s affiliation
- 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.
- Confirm that “Yes, I wish to publish open access as per the agreement” and complete the Journal Publishing Agreement.
- Your institution will be alerted to your open access funding request. If the request is approved, your article will be made immediately available as open access upon publication under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
Read more about this agreement on the ACS SANLiC transformative agreements page: https://acsopenscience.org/customers/sanlic/
Information on the SANLiC web page is here: https://sanlic.org.za/american-chemical-society-acs/
