ACS Publications stands alongside Chemical Abstracts Services in supporting the American Chemical Society's goal to be the most authoritative, comprehensive, and indispensable provider of chemistry-related information, in keeping with the ACS's Vision of Improving People's Lives Through the Transforming Power of Chemistry.
ACS Publications Division Vision Statement:
ACS will be the world's most trusted source of the comprehensive knowledge needed to cultivate the chemists of tomorrow.
Through our unique combination of indispensable information with innovative services, creative collaboration, and transformative technology, we will inspire the growth and foster the engagement of loyal interdisciplinary communities of chemists and allied professionals toward solving global scientific challenges.
ACS Publications Mission Statement:
The Publications Division of the ACS shall provide to its members and the worldwide scientific community a comprehensive collection, in any medium, of high-quality information products and services that advance the practice of the chemical and related sciences and shall generate, in the aggregate, an annual net contribution from operations to support the Society's overall mission of advancing the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people.
About ACS Journals
ACS began the publication of chemical research with the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879. Today, ACS publishes 50 peer-reviewed journals with cutting-edge articles across a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. The breadth and scope of ACS Publications journals is unparalleled, stretching across chemistry, physics, and biology. Every year over 100,000 authors and their research teams from the community of scientists worldwide submit their work for consideration in these journals.
Noted for their high quality, rapid time to publication, seminal, and high impact, and prevalent citation in future research, ACS journals are available at more than 5,000 academic, business, and corporate institutions worldwide. In addition, over 158,000 ACS members have access to articles from ACS journals as a benefit of membership. ACS editors are all independent active scientific researchers, highly published in their respective fields of inquiry.
As one of the first publishers to post online editions of its journal content, starting with The Journal of Physical Chemistry in 1996, ACS has always been on the cutting edge in the publication of peer-reviewed research. The first ASAP articles were posted in 1998, and the first manuscript submissions were accepted online in 1999.
And as the publishing industry and the dissemination of research changes, so too does ACS Publications. Learn more about ACS Publications' range of exciting programs to support open access.
About ACS eBooks
Spanning the gap between discoveries published in patents and journals, the peer-reviewed eBooks of ACS contain essential research conducted by the world's leading scientists across all disciplines and applications. The ACS eBooks, which consist of the Advances in Chemistry series and the ACS Symposium Series, now include more than 1,400 eBooks developed from ACS-sponsored symposia and written by chemistry's brightest minds. Approximately 30 new ACS eBooks are published each year.
About C&EN Global Enterprise
C&EN Global Enterprise brings C&EN to the same award-winning platform as ACS journals. This means all ACS content—eBooks, journals, news, and reference materials—is now available in one place. C&EN Global Enterprise provides readers with a single search location to review results from all content, giving readers historic and contextual perspective right alongside peer-reviewed science.
ACS Publications Awards
ACS Publications has received a number of awards and recognition over the years. Below are some of the most recent.
- 2017 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Journal/Award for Innovation: ACS Central Science
- 2013 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Best New Journal in Science, Technology, and Medicine: ACS Synthetic Biology and Best App/e-Product: ACS ChemWorx
- 2012 American Publishers Award for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Best New Journal in Science, Technology, and Medicine: ACS Catalysis
- 2010 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Best New eProduct in Physical Sciences and Mathematics and Best New eProduct/Innovation in ePublishing: ACS Mobile
Locations
ACS Publications has offices in Washington, DC; Columbus, OH; Oxford, UK; and more than 400 journal editorial offices around the world dedicated to supporting the network of esteemed scientists who read, write, review, and edit ACS publications.