ACS Articles on Request Policy

Through an expanded version of our author e-prints program, any author's article may be accessed without restriction one year after publication. Our current practice permits ACS authors to e-mail or post a link on their website to distribute up to 50 free e-prints of their final published articles to interested colleagues. By this new initiative, the access restriction will be lifted at 12 months, allowing free access to such articles via those same author-directed links.

In addition to this initiative, peer-reviewed and unedited versions of author manuscripts accepted for publication, if funded in whole or in part by the NIH, will be accessible to the public through PubMed Central, 12 months after publication by the ACS.

The author may distribute a link to the final version of the article at his or her own discretion. The link may be posted on the author's website or sent via e-mail from the author to interested colleagues. The link directs readers to the PDF version of the article on the ACS website. Those users who already have subscription access privileges obtain seamless IP-based access. Such access is not metered.

Users without subscription-based access complete a simple registration form that enables immediate free access to a copy of the article.

http://pubs.acs.org/reprints/policy.html