Abstract

The American Chemical Society is continuing to expand its portfolio of open-access journals with the launch of JACS Au (pronounced “JACS Gold”). The peer-reviewed publication will operate on a pay-to-publish, free-to-read model, covering high-impact research in chemistry and related fields. Submissions to JACS Au will open this summer. “We are beginning the decade with a groundbreaking commitment to open access and open science,” says James Milne, president of the ACS Publications Division. JACS Au will complement ACS’s flagship publication, the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). It will have an independent editorial team led by an editor in chief, who will be appointed in the coming months. The new publication brings the number of ACS’s fully open-access journals to three. ACS Central Science, which was launched in 2015 as the society’s first fully open-access journal, is free to both authors and readers. ACS Omega, which was launched in 2016,

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