Tools available in the ACS Open Science Resource Center aim to speed the transition to an open science future by effectively communicating how open access publishing works.
Interview with James Milne
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The movement toward Open Access in scholarly publishing has recently seen so-called “transformative agreements” emerge as a sustainable path to open for authors, publishers, and institutions. Yet for many researchers looking to become authors in OA journals, many questions remain.
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society and one of the world’s leading sources of authoritative scientific information, has now launched online an Open Science Resource Center for researchers, librarians and administrators to find information on open science and open access publishing. With more than 150,000 members, ACS has signed numerous transformative agreements with funders and research universities over the last two years.
As the president for ACS Publications, James Milne leads the strategic planning and overall management responsibility for the American Chemical Society’s portfolio of over 65 peer-reviewed journals; Chemical & Engineering News; and numerous other information products and services. He tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally how the ACS Open Science Resource Center will speed the transition to an open science future by effectively communicating how open access publishing works for the extensive community of ACS authors
“Making the publication process easier for researchers is crucial to our mission of advancing the chemistry enterprise,” says Milne. “We will continue to expand our open science initiatives to ensure that we meet the needs of the scientific community.”
