Term of contract GFZ: 1.01.2023 to 31.12.2025

Publish and Read agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS).

• Authorisation of authors from participating institutions to publish Open Access in subscription-based and Gold Open Access journals.
• Reading access to the entire ACS portfolio.

You are a researcher from a participating institution and you submit your paper as responsible Submitting Corresponding Author.

Clearly state your affiliation in the article submission process. And please use the e-mail address of your institution (GFZ) for submitting.

Please note that any additional costs incurred (e.g. for overlength or color illustrations) are excluded from the DEAL contract and will be invoiced individually to the authors or the section.

The Creative Commons license CC BY is set by default for the contract.

We also recommend the liberal license type CC BY, which grants the most ideal reuse possibilities in science without restricting your copyright in the work.

1. Please use the institutional e-mail address for communication with the publisher and when submitting the manuscript.
2. When submitting the manuscript, please select your institution as affiliation: German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam GFZ.
3. When the manuscript is accepted, please choose the Open Access option and confirm the publishing agreement: “Yes, I wish to publish open access as per the agreement”
4. The article details will then be sent to the library for review and approval.

Details on the submission process can also be found on the ACS website: https://acsopenscience.org/customers/helmholtz-consortium/#publish