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UT authors publishing in American Chemical Society (ACS) journals can now make their research more openly accessible. This opportunity is available through the UT System’s Read & Green agreement with ACS.

Under this agreement:

• Authors may deposit their accepted manuscript (postprint) into an institutional or subject repository immediately upon acceptance, with no embargo.
• The deposited manuscript can be shared under a Creative Commons license of the author’s choice (CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND).
• The author retains copyright of the accepted manuscript.
• There is no fee for authors to participate.

To participate, authors must opt in during the ACS Journal Publishing Agreement process by selecting the option to retain copyright and allow repository deposit.

NOTE: This agreement does not cover article processing charges (APCs) for immediate open access publication. Authors who wish to publish their final articles open access may still do so by paying an APC.

Read & Green vs Read & Publish:

Most funders, such as NIH, require you to publicly share the accepted manuscript (the version after peer review but before final formatting). Usually this entails depositing or posting the accepted manuscript to a repository such as PubMed Central. This is called green open access. Making the fully edited, published article (also called the version of record) publicly available is gold open access.

This agreement also helps UT authors meet federal public access requirements for research funded by U.S. government agencies, which mandate that accepted manuscripts be made immediately available to the public beginning January 1, 2026.

Eligibility:

• the submitting corresponding author must be affiliated with UT Health San Antonio
• only includes the accepted manuscript (the version after peer review but before final formatting)
• be accepted after January 1, 2026

How to use this agreement:

See author instructions here. 

1. Submit your article to the ACS journal of your choice, making sure you are the submitting corresponding author.
2. Ensure your institution affiliation is correct on your profile in the ACS Publishing Center.
3. Check that your affiliation is stated in the body of the manuscript as the corresponding author’s affiliation.
4. When your manuscript has been accepted for publication, you will be asked if you wish to participate in your institution’s read and green agreement through completion of the Journal Publishing Agreement. Authors selecting the option to retain copyright will be permitted to deposit their accepted manuscript in a repository with no embargo period. 
5. Once the Journal Publishing Agreement has been signed, you may upload your accepted manuscript to the repository of your choice. Your institution and/or research funder may specify the repository to use.

Please note: You are not required to purchase open access to the final article in order to deposit your accepted manuscript, but you must deposit the manuscript yourself.

Approval:

• More details to come! 

Agreement:

Read & Green agreement with the University of Texas System.