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Log in using your ACS ID.  \nClick Start Submission.  \nClick Submit under the journal you wish to submit to.  \nSubmission through the ACS Publishing Center  \nQualification through the open access agreement is systematically based on the submitting authors primary affiliation at the time of manuscript submission. To automatically match to the agreement, the CERCA Network affiliation must be used.  \nDuring the submission process, please ensure the affiliation in the Submitting Agent field and the Author & Institutions field reflect your CERCA Network affiliation. The affiliation in both fields should show the same institution.  \nIf the primary affiliation after acceptance reflects something other than the CERCA Network affiliation, the manuscript will not automatically match to the agreement.  \nThe author can [contact](contact OAOps@accs.org)[ ](contact OAOps@accs.org)[OAOps@accs.org](contact OAOps@accs.org) for assistance.  \nSubmission through the ACS Publishing Center  \nAuthors will be asked if they need to comply with any open access mandates and how they may pay for any required open access publication costs.  \nNote: The answers to these questions do not determine qualification through an agreement. The questions were designed to get the authors thinking about open access and how theAPC may be covered.  \nCompleting the  \nJournal Publishing Agreement (JPA)  \nJournal Publishing Agreement  \nThe submitting author is sent an email invitation when the manuscript has been accepted requesting the completion of the Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA) .  \nA link to complete the Journal Publishing Agreement is contained within the email.  \nJournal Publishing Agreement  \nThe JPA assistant will identify that an author is affiliated to an open access agreement. Authors selecting the  \nYes, I wish to publish open access as per the agreement option will retain copyright. An approved funding request or payment of the APC must be completed for the manuscript to publish.  \nAuthors selecting the No, I do not wish to publish open access option will transfer the copyright to the ACS. The manuscript can still be published as open access, but copyright will remain with the ACS.  \nIf the JPA does not show the CERCA Network, the author can [contact ](contact OAOps@acs.org)[OAOps@acs.org](contact OAOps@acs.org) for assistance.  \nNote: Authors publishing in a gold journal will not be required to complete this step if the agreement provides coverage for gold journals.  \nThe JPA is NOT a funding request.  \nJournal Publishing Agreement  \nTo finalize the JPA, the author should proceed through answering additional questions that are not related to open access.","cbCaimCsnO7Hjm5R","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimCsnO7Hjm5R","pdf",2528489,"English","# Submitting a Manuscript to ACS\n## Submission via the ACS Publishing Center\n## Open Access Agreement Qualification (CERCA OA)\n# Completing the Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA)\n## JPA invitation and open access options\n## Copyright implications and assistance contacts","[{\"question\":\"How does an author qualify for the open access agreement during submission?\",\"answer\":\"Qualification is determined systematically based on the submitting author’s primary affiliation at the time of manuscript submission, and the CERCA Network affiliation must be used to automatically match the agreement.\"},{\"question\":\"What should authors ensure about their affiliation fields?\",\"answer\":\"Ensure the affiliation in both the Submitting Agent field and the Author \\u0026 Institutions field reflects the same CERCA Network affiliation. 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