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The Importance of High-Quality Content

Effective R&D demands access to high-quality research from trusted sources, as well as insight from diverse, seemingly unrelated fields. Without it, researchers face delays and risk missing breakthrough discoveries.

A subscription to ACS content provides swift, direct access to a comprehensive suite of trusted scientific journals and books, helping pharma and biotech researchers overcome their toughest scientific challenges to drive research forward. Discover Access Options.

Why Use ACS Content for Your Pharma and Biotech Research?

Exceptional Breadth, in One Location

Scientific innovations are often the result of interdisciplinary knowledge sharing.
ACS content encompasses all aspects of chemistry and allied fields, helping you to unlock better ways forward, drive new discoveries, and overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Our journals cover:

• Compound design & optimization • Biological evaluation • Drug delivery & drug delivery systems • Imaging agents • Translational science of bioactive molecules • Analytical chemistry • Synthetic chemistry • Target Identification • Regulatory and Trials • Reagents • Toxicology • Mechanistic insights • Materials in Pharma • Drug Coatings and • Production/Manufacturing and Scaling.

The Most Trusted Research in the Biosciences

ACS journals are home to the most trusted, most cited, and most read chemistry research, with more than 300 million downloads per year. Our robust review process ensures the novelty and soundness of ACS content. We also weed out paper-mill and AI content, and editorial decisions are made by leading research-active scientists. That means you can rely on what you read, streamlining your research.

Quality, in-Depth Science that You Can Reproduce

ACS content contains information of the highest quality and accuracy, with meticulously detailed supporting information. Get preps that work, procedures you can easily follow, and learn novel approaches you can use in your work. Don’t waste time working from inferior quality content.

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The Cutting-Edge at Your Fingertips

We monitor the industry and solicit the best research on emerging topics impacting the pharma and biotech space, thanks to our editorial team of renowned researchers, including Nobel Laureate Dr. Bertozzi and Atavistic’s Head of Drug Discovery Dr. Blanco. This, combined with notifications about important updates to published content, ensures you get the very latest, most up-to-date research to help propel you to your next milestone.

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Fast, Flexible Access with Dedicated Support

ACS offers fast and direct access to journals via a range of subscription options to meet your specific institutional needs.

We’ll also help you unlock the full potential of your subscription with a dedicated customer success team. Get expert help with account and administrative setup, user onboarding, customized research alerts, and more.

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“When we first start a project, one of the first things we do is to go back to the ACS journals to see what we have in that field, in agriculture, in energy.... So yes, they are always our first, primary resource of knowledge and of information for new projects. ”
Priscila Castelani, Director of Marketing and R&D for Crop Solutions and Energy & Resources Indorama Ventures
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“ACS’ publications are very well known, very well established. I would say the go-to journal(s) for many of the people who are doing research… You feel comfortable that the data has been peer reviewed, and you can trust it.”
Yu Ling (Elaine) Hsiao, CTO LCY Chemical Group
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“Without fail, those ACS journal preps always worked very well.”
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“The quality and reliability of ACS journals stands out. They’re trusted, and I would recommend them to other R&D teams.”
Douglas Williamson, Senior Team Leader, Chemistry Vernalis Research
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“Whenever I read ACS journals, it is with the knowledge that it has gone through that really rigorous process, and I can trust the research.”
Dr. Lisa Pilkington, Senior Lecturer, Chemical Sciences University of Auckland

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Frequently Asked Questions

ACS offers a comprehensive suite of journals across all areas of chemistry and allied fields, providing the breadth of insight needed to effectively drive breakthroughs. Our journals cover the following topic areas:

  • Compound design & optimization
  • Biological evaluation
  • Drug delivery & drug delivery systems
  • Imaging agents
  • Translational science of bioactive molecules
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Synthetic chemistry
  • Target identification
  • Regulatory and trials
  • Reagents
  • Toxicology
  • Mechanistic insights
  • Materials in pharma
  • Drug coatings & delivery
  • Production/manufacturing and scaling

ACS offers a range of institutional access options to cost-effectively meet differing needs — from comprehensive and cost-effective barrier-free access to all ACS content, to individual journal subscriptions.

Browse our access options in more detail, or book a consultation with our team to discuss your specific needs today.

ACS content can help fuel faster and more effective research in several ways. First, by providing access to journals across all areas of chemistry and allied fields, we facilitate the cross-subject knowledge sharing that’s foundational to new discoveries. Moreover, our content is amongst the highest quality and most trusted in the world, meaning you can rely on it to give you accurate insights, reproducible preps, and novel approaches that just work, helping you streamline your research.

Our editorial team is also led by world-renowned researchers who solicit research on hot topics impacting the pharma and biotech sector, meaning subscribers are amongst the first to discover new ideas and findings that could speed their path to their next breakthrough.

About ACS Publications

ACS Publications, a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is the world’s leading sources of authoritative scientific information. ACS Publications provides quality, peer-reviewed chemistry journals, scientific research articles, and more across all fields of chemical sciences.

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