On 21 September, the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced a new twist on the article processing charge (APC) model of funding open-access publishing. Their new program involves what they call an article development charge (ADC), which is designed to “provide authors a new option to satisfy funder requirements for zero-embargo green open access.” Sarah Tegen, PhD, Chief Publishing Officer of ACS Publications, agreed to respond to a few questions about this new program.
While the whole world, as leading publishers, resources and databases, is moving to the open access publication model, we are already offering journals from the Scientific Route OÜ publishing house, which have supported this publication policy for more than 5 years.
