ACS Author Choice Program Adam Chesler 08 Mar 2007 18:27 UTC
Recent posts to the listserv have contributed to a misunderstanding about the ACS AuthorChoice program to provide open article access. We believe that the following clarification will be helpful: The ACS Author Choice option is for authors who wish or need to sponsor open access to their published research articles. It allows immediate open web access to the final published article as delivered from the ACS web site, in exchange for a fixed fee paid by the author or author's sponsor. Discounts are provided to authors who are members of the ACS or whose institutions subscribe to ACS journals. (ACS members who are authors from subscribing institutions get an even greater combined discount.) ACS AuthorChoice also licenses authors to post electronic copies of published articles on their own personal websites, and those of their funding agencies, for scholarly purposes. The terms and conditions of this license are described at http://pubs.acs.org/4authors/authorchoice/authorchoice_tc.pdf. This clarification notwithstanding, the ACS Author Choice option is but one way the Society supports the distribution of scientific research via the web, in partnership with our international community of authors. Our ACS Articles on Request program is another initiative that enables each ACS author to direct interested readers to the authoritative version of the final, published article on the ACS website. There is no charge to authors or readers for this service, and access is managed through a unique URL which we supply to contributing authors at the time of online publication. These links can be emailed to colleagues or posted on the author's personal or institutional web sites. As an extension of our author e-print service, ACS permits within the first 12 months of publication up to 50 complimentary article downloads to interested readers who are not already ACS subscribers; at 12 months and thereafter, reader access via these author-directed links is unlimited. What these two access options intend is that only those authors who elect ACS Author Choice are licensed the right to post copies of final published articles for availability on the web - and may do so immediately upon publication. Under the ACS Articles on Request program, any ACS author is at liberty to e-mail or post links to final published articles as published by the Society. Article access via those links is from the ACS web site only, and is provided without charge to the reader, with no access limitations after 12 months. Complete details about ACS Author Choice option are available on our web site, at http://pubs.acs.org/4authors/authorchoice/. Information about the ACS Articles on Request program is available at http://pubs.acs.org/reprints/policy.html. Our ACS copyright policy is accessible at http://pubs.acs.org/copyright/forms/copyright.pdf. Adam *********************************************** Adam Chesler Assistant Director, Sales and Library Relations American Chemical Society 1155 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Office Telephone: (202) 872-6183 Mobile Telephone: (617) 230-3201 Fax: (202) 872-6005 E-Mail: a_chesler@acs.org ACS PUBLICATIONS High Quality. High Impact. http://pubs.acs.org