Partner Publishing
World class publishing with boutique-style service and flair
Grow With Us
When you choose ACS as your publishing partner, your society leverages the strength of a world-class journals publishing program with a team that treats you like family as we work together to grow your submissions, grow your audience, grow your reputation, and grow your income.
Our arrangements feature:
- Editorial independence
- Flexible business structure
- Simple, transparent, and fair financial arrangements
- Predictable income
Build Trust and Elevate Your Reputation
- Aligned Missions: We advance scientific knowledge, empower a global community, and champion scientific integrity—values that naturally complement and amplify your society’s mission.
- Independent Editorial Decisions: Our Editors-in-Chief retain full independence, ensuring unbiased and credible publishing.
- Expert Leadership: Our Editors-in-Chief are respected, active researchers, bringing current field expertise to every decision.
- Rigorous Publication Standards: We monitor every aspect of publication, from submission to long-term support, resulting in first-class publishing quality.
- Unmatched Trust: In a survey of over 10,000 researchers, we were recognized as the most trustworthy publisher, surpassing all major competitors.
ASMS Tells Their Story of Success Partnering with ACS Publications
When leaders of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) considered moving the Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry from a large commercial publisher to ACS, they were hesitant at first and ultimately very satisfied. Read the story of ASMS, Executive Director, Jennifer Watson, and President, Joe Loo as they reflect on their experiences with ACS Publications after 5 years, and their decision to extend their partnership.
Read the Story
Reach a Global Audience
Partnering with a journal publisher that boasts a large subscriber-base in excess of 5,000 institutions and a robust, global distribution network offers societies a significant strategic advantage. This translates to increased journal visibility and usage, ensuring that research findings are broadcast to a broad audience of engaged readers.
ACS’ widespread exposure acts as a powerful magnet, attracting high-caliber authors eager to have their work read and cited. Furthermore, a wider readership naturally leads to higher citation rates, ultimately amplifying the journal’s impact and solidifying its standing within the scientific community.
- More than 5,000 institutional subscribers
- Over 4M prospective authors
- Global distributor networks, on the ground, and operating in local languages
Your outcome: by partnering with ACS Publications and leveraging our global channels, societies can effectively elevate their journal’s profile, driving usage, author recruitment, and overall impact.
Leverage Strategic Insights & Marketing
The scientific landscape is rapidly evolving, creating new opportunities. Our marketing teams engage a broad audience across all scientific disciplines to create lasting connections. We constantly monitor researcher feedback and emerging sub-disciplines in the scientific landscape and the publishing ecosystem to provide the insights and consultation you need to capitalize on these opportunities and grow.
Your outcome:
- Innovative ideas
- Strategic opportunities
- Expert consultation
Ensure a Smooth Transition
Once you partner with us, an experienced editor will ensure a seamless onboarding experience for you and your editorial team, minimizing disruptions. This editor will remain your contact, building a proactive, long-term working relationship.
- Clear Communication: We prioritize open and proactive communication throughout the process.
- Dedicated Support: You’ll have a single point of contact for personalized and responsive assistance.
- Familiar Workflow: Many chemistry-related societies and their members are ACS authors—finding our publishing and review process familiar and comfortable, easing the transition.
Simplify Open Access
Whether your journals are hybrid (combination subscription and OA), gold (fully APC funded OA), or diamond (sponsored OA), we have everything in place to make open access easy. Our technology simplifies transaction management, offering authors and institutions a full range of open access options. We have competitive rates and substantial discounts for researchers and institutions from economically disadvantaged regions.
With more than 1,500 academic subscribers participating in read and publish agreements, your journal gains a significant advantage in attracting authors with open access funding requirements, particularly in regions like Canada, Europe, and California.
Your outcome: We handle all open access transactions, empowering you to attract authors globally.
Empower Authors with an Intuitive, Fast Publishing Experience
We’ve invested in cutting-edge platforms, as evidenced by our acquisition of ChronosHub, to create a streamlined, intuitive authoring experience that significantly reduces time to publication and improves author satisfaction. This efficiency benefits authors who value rapid research dissemination and helps us maintain a consistent, timely publication and review schedule.
We also provide free tools and training, such as ACS Author Lab and ACS Reviewer Lab, to simplify the submission and revision processes for authors and reviewers. By making these processes easy, authors can focus on their research, strengthening the relationship between authors, reviewers, journals, and our publishing team.
Your outcome: more high-quality submissions, faster publication cycles, increased author satisfaction, and a stronger reputation for your society’s journal.
Benefit from High-Quality Production
We understand that clear, consistent, well-written content is key to both reader engagement and search engine visibility. By partnering with us, you gain access to our expert technical editing and production teams, dedicated to delivering a crisp reading experience that maximizes research impact. We ensure articles are delivered in a standardized and familiar format using ACS Style. Clear layouts, professional communication, and effective display of images, tables, and supporting information form the backbone of trusted communication.
This commitment to quality translates to articles that are not only visually compelling, but also easily accessible and digestible. Our rigorously formatted, XML-structured articles enhance discoverability by adhering to best practices in digital publishing, making your content easily indexed and searchable. This optimization also improves your journal’s SEO and prepares it for effective future use in AI/ML processes.
Your outcome: increased readership, higher citation rates, and amplified impact for your society’s research within the scientific community.
Deliver Your Content Seamlessly with Our Advanced Platform
We provide a robust, continuously updated delivery platform that ensures your expertly produced content is accessible and readable in formats your audience prefers, including HTML and PDF. Clear iconography clearly demarcates content availability (such as OA and Free) and a user-friendly search interface make content discovery easy. An easy-to-use form empowers users to recommend content from your journal to their library for adoption, further helping expand the reach of your journal.
Our strategic partnerships with Portico, COUNTER, Crossref, ORCID, CHORUS, and COPE ensure continuous access, even in unforeseen circumstances. These collaborations also deliver enhanced features, such as comprehensive usage statistics for libraries and unique author identifiers, empowering you, your readers, and the libraries who subscribe to get the most from your experience.
Start the Conversation
Whether you are already established with another publisher and considering new options, or you are self-publishing and want to explore what others can add, we are here to help. Let us know you are interested and a senior member of our partnership team will schedule a time to connect.
