CCS Chemistry is a Diamond Open Access journal, meaning that it is fully open access and has no fees for authors whose articles are accepted in the journal. Our new copyright and permissions form reflects the priority that the society is placing on allowing all readers around the world to have free access to articles published in CCS Chemistry. Great chemistry shouldn't be kept behind a paywall.

We think you will be pleased with what our Diamond Open Access policy will offer you as an author and reader of CCS Chemistry. A summary of our new Author Agreement and the form can be found here.

For requests by third parties to re-use a CCS Chemistry article in whole or in part, a citation to the article and a link to the formal publication via its Digital Object Identifier (“DOI”) is required using the following format: “This article/figure/table/excerpt has been published in CCS Chemistry [Year of Publication]; [Article Title] is available online at [DOI; Direct Link].” For further questions, please email our office.

Renewables, currently has the same policies as CCS Chemistry. For copyright and permissions information about our other co-published journals, please go to the homepage of the journal you wish to inquire about. More details will be provided on each journals' web page.

CCS Chemistry is a peer reviewed publication. Manuscripts submitted to CCS Chemistry undergo single-blind peer review prior to publication.

We encourage all authors and reviewers to visit our page outlining ethical guidelines for publishing in CCS Chemistry which can be found here. In addition to our Author Guidelines and Reviewer Guidelines, this page contains important information concerning our policies on expected ethical practices for authors, reviewers, and editors.