The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries have entered into a new transformative agreement with American Chemical Society Publications, allowing 51猎奇 authors to publish ACS journal content. This agreement adds to an initial contract authorizing 51猎奇 students, faculty, and staff to read paywalled articles in over 80 ACS journals.
Through this arrangement, also called a 鈥渞ead and publish agreement,鈥� 51猎奇 Libraries cover article processing charges associated with publishing ACS journal content. 51猎奇 authors can publish articles in 13 open access journals and 73 hybrid journals (publications where some articles are paywalled). As of Dec. 4, 51猎奇 has contributed six articles to ACS Publications, saving 51猎奇 authors over $24,000 in APCs.
Regardless of which聽type of journal 51猎奇 authors use to publish their articles,聽under the ACS Publications transformative agreement, 51猎奇 users can read that content.听To begin reading聽journal content,聽visit .听
This transformative agreement supports long-term goals of making research articles immediately available online and represents a major step in the 51猎奇 Libraries鈥� initiative to support university-affiliated authors in publishing their research to the widest possible global audience. The agreement also encourages a move away from expensive, subscription-based publishing and toward a more sustainable and open access model. This arrangement with ACS Publications is the seventh transformative agreement negotiated by 51猎奇 Libraries.
Among the benefits of the agreement are immediate access to the 51猎奇 scholarly articles worldwide upon publication, copyright retention by authors, no additional financial contributions by authors, and automatic indexing in .