Progress in the biological and medicinal sciences has led to a dramatic improvement of the human condition.
Plant scientists have enabled us to feed more of our growing global population. Biological chemists have engineered microorganisms to produce renewable fuels that support international transportation. Medicinal and organic chemists have devised new therapeutics to treat debilitating diseases.
Scientific discoveries are advanced most efficiently when validated research is shared quickly, equitably, and widely.
ACS Bio & Med Chem Au is a new open access journal that will support you in sharing your results widely and quickly across the world, so others can cite and build on the discoveries you have made.
Edited by Professor Squire J. Booker and Professor Stuart Conway, with a rigorous, fair, and efficient peer review process, the journal will publish significant and meaningful new research in biological and medicinal chemistry.
Designed for Authors, choosing ACS Bio & Med Chem Au enables you to:
- Amplify your Audience - no barriers for readers online anywhere
- Publish in Authentic, ACS journals
- Verify the Authority of your work through robust ACS peer review
- Augment and amplify your contribution to the scientific community
The journal's broad scope includes experimental and theoretical studies on the chemical, physical, mechanistic, and/or structural basis of biological or cell function in all domains of life. It encompasses the fields of medical chemistry, chemical biology, synthetic biology, disease biology, cell biology, agriculture and food, natural products research, nucleic acid biology, neuroscience, structural biology, and biophysics. For a full description go to https://pubs.acs.org/biomedchemau.
How do you publish open access in ACS Bio & Med Chem Au?
To make ACS Bio & Med Chem Au open, discoverable and sustainable for all readers now and for future generations, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) and to choose a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND publishing license.
As ACS Bio & Med Chem Au is Plan S compliant, your funder might actively support open access publishing and allow APCs to be paid from your grants.
And if you are affiliated as lead author with one of the many institutions that has partnered with ACS in a 'Read + Publish' agreement, then you may be eligible to publish at no cost to yourself. This process is Automated after acceptance when you indicate your affiliation upon submission.
ACS Bio & Med Chem Au will become a premier journal for significant and impactful new research in biological and medical chemistry. Help us create a truly world-class journal for your community.
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