Leonard Lief Library FAQs - Answer

As of 2024, CUNY-affiliated authors who submit manuscripts to an ACS publication will, after acceptance of their manuscript, be given the option to make their article available open access at no extra cost upon publication.

Previously, many ACS publications charged fees to the author known as article processing charges or APCs when publishing open source. This new agreement with ACS removes the APC fee for CUNY authors.

In other words, CUNY- affiliated authors who submit manuscripts to ACS journals will now have the option to make their article available open access at no extra cost upon publication.

Note: This agreement only applies to submitting corresponding authors who are affiliated with institutions listed on the agreement details page.

A full list of eligible ACS publications can be viewed at this link.