ACS Publications and French consortium together support open access publishing - American Chemical Society

"The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Couperin, an academic consortium representing more than 250 universities and other educational and research institutions across France. This memorandum lays the groundwork for a new agreement covering ACS’ portfolio of hybrid journals, which combine open access (OA) and subscription-access content. 

The agreement is the first of its kind between ACS Publications and an academic consortium. In addition to granting participating institutions within the Couperin consortium full reading access to ACS journals, upon commencement the agreement will also provide authors with support for zero-embargo green OA (ZEGOA). This means that eligible corresponding authors at these institutions will be able to immediately self-archive their accepted manuscript in the repository of their choice for their articles published within ACS’ hybrid journals.  ..."