‘American Chemical Society began a pilot program that will make some journal papers available online about two to seven weeks quicker than was the case previously. Authors publishing in ACS Chemical Biology, Biochemistry, Journal of Proteome Research, and Molecular Pharmaceutics can opt to have their peer-reviewed, accepted manuscripts posted on the ACS Publications website within three days of acceptance. These “Just Accepted” manuscripts, (see example here) which are free to all readers, are assigned a digital object identifier (DOI) that can be used to cite the papers.’ –From Chemical and Engineering News
Why is this important to open access? ACS has been reluctant to grant campus repositories permission to provide open acess to work penned by their faculty. [Check out their policies in Sherpa/Romeo). This pilot appears to be a step in the right direction, while speeding up the publishing process and providing open web access to this information.
