If you are a researcher associated with the University of Macau and are the submitting corresponding author, you will have the opportunity to publish your research in any ACS journal under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (Please apply an appropriate Creative Commons licenses according to your funder's requirement).
Access to All ACS Journals
In addition to open access publication benefits, participants in this special agreement will have full-text access to all current ACS Publications journal content.
OA Publishing Quota for 2024: 27 Articles
##Note: Articles accepted by publishers will be approved on a first-come-first-served basis while quota lasts.
Step 1.
Submit your article to the ACS journal of your choice, making sure you are the submitting corresponding author.
Step 2.
Ensure your institution affiliation is correct on your profile in the ACS Paragon Plus submission system.
Step 3.
Check that your affiliation is stated in the body of the manuscript as the corresponding author’s affiliation.
Step 4.
When your manuscript has been accepted for publication, you will be automatically prompted with the option to publish open access under your institution’s agreement.
Step 5.
Confirm that “Yes, I wish to publish open access as per the agreement” and complete the Journal Publishing Agreement.
Step 6.
Your institution will be alerted to your open access funding request. If the request is approved, your article will be made immediately available as open access upon publication under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. There are no charges to pay and no further action required by either you or your institution.
Video demonstration
This demo video shows you how to navigate the Journal Publishing Agreement assistant and publish your research open access under UM open access agreement:
Converting your published article into Open Access
You can convert your published article into open access while there is remaining OA publishing quota (the publication year of your artcile must be same as OA publishing quota year). You can visit ACS Research Sharing and Open Access page to check if your article can be converted into open access.
Enter the DOI number to check if your article can be converted into open access.
The table below shows the ACS journals where your article publishing charge (APC) should be covered by your institution. Unless otherwise stated, this Agreement covers 100% of the APC when selecting a CC BY open access license.
| Journal / Collection | Included in Agreement? |
 ACS Central Science |
Diamond open access: Free to publish and read |
 ACS Omega |
 APC covered |
 ACS Au family (including JACS Au) |
APC covered |
| Other ACS fully open access journals | Waivers may be available: see individual journals for information |
| ACS hybrid / transformative journals | APC covered |