Re: ACS and Repositories

[David Prosser <david.prosser@rluk.ac.uk>]

ACS is one of the most restrictive publisher in terms of what 
they allow authors to do with their own work.  See the Romeo 
database for details:

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?id=4&la=en&fIDnum=|

It's a wonder what chemists will tolerate!

David


On 30 Mar 2011, at 01:13, Gonzales, Rhonda L wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> One of our faculty members it getting ready to submit an article
> for consideration with one of the ACS journals (Environmental
> Science and Technology) . This is the submission form from ACS
> that I think he is looking at:
> http://pubs.acs.org/paragonplus/copyright/jpa_form_a.pdf. The way
> I read it, since our institution does not "mandate" that articles
> be deposited, then he would not be permitted to post his article
> in our repository (post acceptance)?
>
> I'm sure many of you have already had experience with ACS and
> thought I would just ask for comments on my interpretation.
>
> Thanks,
> Rhonda
>
> Rhonda Gonzales
> Dean of Library Services
> Colorado State University - Pueblo
> 2200 Bonforte Blvd.
> Pueblo, CO 81001