The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries have entered into a new transformative agreement with American Chemical Society Publications, allowing UWM authors to publish ACS journal content. This agreement adds to an initial contract authorizing UWM students, faculty, and staff to read paywalled articles in over 80 ACS journals.
Through this arrangement, also called a “read and publish agreement,” UWM Libraries cover article processing charges associated with publishing ACS journal content. UWM authors can publish articles in 13 open access journals and 73 hybrid journals (publications where some articles are paywalled). As of Dec. 4, UWM has contributed six articles to ACS Publications, saving UWM authors over $24,000 in APCs.
Regardless of which type of journal UWM authors use to publish their articles, under the ACS Publications transformative agreement, UWM users can read that content. To begin reading journal content, visit ACS Publications.
This transformative agreement supports long-term goals of making research articles immediately available online and represents a major step in the UWM Libraries’ 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 UWM Libraries.
Among the benefits of the agreement are immediate access to the UWM scholarly articles worldwide upon publication, copyright retention by authors, no additional financial contributions by authors, and automatic indexing in PubMed.