Open Access/ Scholarly Communication

Publisher Initiatives

(1)    Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journals (http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals)

If you have an article accepted for publication in any of the RSC journals, please contact Luti Salisbury, the CHBC Librarian (chemres@uark.edu), for a coupon that will make your article freely available to everyone from the date it is published. Because we subscribe to RSC Gold package, they have given us 25 coupons (normally a £1,600 each to publish one article open access) to aid in this initiative for 2014.

Please note: if the research has been funded by the NIH and there is mention of this in the article, as well as the grant number, this will be picked up by the RSC and will be deposited to PubMed Central.

Read the Royal Society’s FAQ on this initiative here: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/librarians/GoldforGoldFAQs.asp

Read our Newswire item at http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/23745/university-libraries-participate-in-royal-society-of-chemistry-s-gold-for-gold-open-access-publishing-initiative

American Chemical Society (ACS) Open Access Initiatives to aid authors (http://acsopenaccess.org/acs-author-rewards/)

  • With ACS Author Rewards, ACS provides publishing credits directly to each Corresponding Author of each article published in any ACS Journals in 2014.
  • ACS awards publishing credits, worth a total value of $1,500 per article published in 2014; there are no limits on the number of credits an author can earn
  • Authors use credits to fund any ACS open access publishing option within the next three years (2015-2017); credits are transferable to another author
  • Program designed to help research authors transition to new open access publishing models

Read about other ACS Open Access Initiatives here: http://acsopenaccess.org/

Listing of the current ACS journals