October 24-28 is Open Access Week, a time to share open access research, learn about open access publishing options, and to ponder the implications of making more research more freely available. Authors now have more options that ever for making their research open, such as ACS Omega, ACS Central Science, ACS AuthorChoice, ACS Editors’ Choice, […]

October 24-28 is Open Access Week, a time to share open access research, learn about open access publishing options, and to ponder the implications of making more research more freely available. Authors now have more options that ever for making their research open, such as ACS Omega, ACS Central Science, ACS AuthorChoice, ACS Editors’ Choice, and ACS Author Rewards. As a result, chemists around the world can now read an ever-growing trove of open access chemistry research.

What are the effects of this important trend? We asked you to share your thoughts on the impact of open access – the good, the bad and everything in between. Here are some of our favorite comments:

Learn more about all the different ways that ACS is promoting open access chemistry research – and discover some of our open access papers for yourself.
Now it’s your turn. Tell us what open access mean to you in the comments!

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