The American Chemical Society announced an expansion of its open access publishing options, designed to assist authors. The expansion includes a new open access, peer-reviewed journal, ACS Central Science, to be launched in 2014, plus more licensing choices for authors and a stimulus program to support authors who select ACS journals when seeking to publish their work open access.

For more information, please visit http://acsopenaccess.org/. If you have any questions about scholarly publishing or open access, please contact the Sciences Library at 335-3083 or lib-sciences@uiowa.edu.