Leonard Lief Library FAQs

How does the American Chemical Society's open access publishing agreement with CUNY work?

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 where the list of eligible ACS publications can also be found.