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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;font-size: 12pt;">As an aside, the American Chemical Society has just begun publication of ACS Central Science
<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/journal/acscii" target="_blank">http://pubs.acs.org/journal/acscii</a>
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<cite>"ACS Central Science</cite> is <b>entirely open access, with no subscription fees or article publishing charges</b> for authors. The review process is stringent and efficient. The journal publishes a diverse selection of reviews, interviews and commentary
material."<br>
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<p><cite>"ACS Central Science</cite> is a multidisciplinary journal that aims to publish articles of exceptional quality and interest to the broad chemistry and scientific community. The journal addresses important advances in fundamental areas of chemistry,
as well as applied and interdisciplinary research highlighting the seminal role of chemistry in a wide range of other scientific disciplines."</p>
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<p>"The Editors anticipate publishing no more than 200 articles per year, placing a premium on articles deemed to be of exceptional scientific quality, originality, significance, and breadth of interest to the global chemistry community. New journal articles
appear online as soon as they are ready for publication, and the journal publishes online monthly issues."</p>
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Dana L. Roth<br>
Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32<br>
1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125<br>
626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540<br>
dzrlib@library.caltech.edu<br>
http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm<br>
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From: goal-bounces@eprints.org [goal-bounces@eprints.org] on behalf of Couture Marc [marc.couture@teluq.ca]<br>
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 7:01 AM<br>
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Master theses as preprints<br>
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Longva Leif wrote:<br>
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> So I am still keen on views on how common it is for journals to reject manuscripts<br>
> if the preprint is already available in an IR.<br>
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This would be an application of Ingelfinger Rule (no submission accepted in case of “prior publication”).<br>
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I haven’t found any in-depth study on the criteria journals use to determine what constitutes prior publication, or simply on the prevalence of this rule these days (some journals/publishers which used to apply the rule have ceased to do so).<br>
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The following blog post gives some information, notably about major publishers. It suggests that posting on an institutional repository is not usually considered “prior publication”.<br>
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http://www.scilogs.com/from_the_lab_bench/open-access-to-science-communication-research-your-options<br>
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As to the specific case of theses (Master or PhD), I would think that even fewer publishers apply the rule. I know only of one particular publisher, American Chemical Society, among the most anti-OA publishing organizations (no self-archiving of articles, very
limited reuse rights for authors, etc.), which states on its website:<br>
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“posting of theses and dissertation material on the Web prior to submission of material from that thesis or dissertation to an ACS journal may affect publication in that journal. Whether Web posting is considered prior publication may be evaluated on a case-by-case
basis by the journal’s editor.”<br>
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http://pubs.acs.org/userimages/ContentEditor/1218205107465/dissertation.pdf<br>
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But I would think this hard stance is not shared by many other publishers.<br>
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Marc Couture<br>
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