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 journalSubstantia . 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.