American Chemical Society to run Environmental Health Perspectives journal after funding cuts | Chemistry World
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Summary:
"After the top journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) went dark in December after the Trump administration cut funding to its parent organisation, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has stepped in and will now run it. When the ACS announced the deal yesterday, it brought relief to many in the research community who feared the 53-year-old premier publication might be dead.
Previously published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), EHP was one of the few peer-reviewed journals funded by the government. It published research on the relationship between the environment and human health and has an impact factor of 10....
EHP will transition from diamond open access, where it was free for authors to publish and published papers were immediately accessible, to gold open access, where authors will have to pay an APC."