An increasing number of national chemistry societies publish OA journals
devoid of publishing costs for authors and their employers. The Swiss
Chemical Society, for example, publishes CHIMIA both digitally at
the URL http://chimia.ch/ and in print. Listed (indexed) in the
most important databases for chemistry research, the journal is
published 10 times a year and in 2019 had a journal impact factor (JIF)
of 1.478.
Similarly, the Iranian Chemical Society publishes Nanochemistry
Research . In 2015 the ACS launched ACS Central Science which,
like Chemical Science published by the Royal Society of
Chemistry, does not levy any APC. For comparison, the latter journal in
2019 published 1,306 articles, while in the same year ACS Central
Science published 247 studies.
Public research bodies too publish OA chemistry journals such as in the
case of Grasas y Aceites published by Spain’s Research Council
(CSIC) Instituto de la Grasa. Published on the CSIC website at
http://revistas.csic.es/ in one yearly volume, divided into four
quarterly issues appearing in March, June, September and December, the
journal (JIF 1.440 in 2019), is a key literature reference for all
scholars working in the field of lipid science and technology.
Similarly since 2017, the University of Florence publishes on the
website of Firenze University Press at
https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs the journal
Substantia . Though focusing on the history of chemistry the
journal publishes also special issues with studies from eminent scholars
that go from “Open science” [
15] through “Water in biology:
what’s so special about it?” [16].
Large chemistry publishers publish several OA chemistry journals (Table
3) generally adopting the APC as a source of revenues.
Table 3 . Ten selected OA chemistry journals levying an APC.