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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2015 â€� The Publications Division of the American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø (ACS) announced today a strategic partnership with Figshare (), an open repository that promotes broad discoverability of scientific research data. The ACS-Figshare partnership will not only provide for improved archiving and access to open data sets and other supporting information that often accompany articles published in the Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø’s preeminent portfolio of peer-reviewed research journals, but will also better enable reader interaction with, and citation of, such ancillary information of importance to the scientific record.

An interactive widget powered by Figshare enables readers to view myriad data and other supporting information. Authors can submit information in more than 100 file formats, including video and multimedia files, tabular data and crystallographic data, to accompany their peer-reviewed articles. Open access to such supporting data within any ACS journal will be freely available to all users via the Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø’s publications website ().ÌýÌý

Researchers publishing with ACS also will now have a mechanism for recognition and citation of their primary research data, which is an important consideration in the context of emerging funder requirements for managing and preserving such underlying information. To aid authors in the fulfillment of these requirements, ACS is facilitating automated deposition of Supporting Information (SI) files to a secure hosting environment, free from any restrictions on size and format. In addition, ACS as publisher will assign Digital Object Identifier (known as DOI) tags to author-submitted SI files, thus enabling a mechanism for systematic citation of such research outputs. An additional benefit of the ACS-Figshare collaboration will be contributing to broader data discoverability, as the SI material will be searchable via Google and other major search engines and Web referral pathways.

"The feedback we’re hearing from authors and readers reinforces the value and the importance of the data and other supporting information published in ACS journals,â€� says Jonathan Morgan, director of Digital Strategy for ACS Publications. “Authors need to ensure the visibility and the openness of the data that support their original research. In parallel, our global audience of readers has voiced a need for improved and streamlined access to information that underlies the important scientific advances published by our Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø. This new strategic partnership with Figshare seeks to satisfy such author and reader needs.â€�

“We are delighted to be working with the world’s largest scientific society to enhance the experience they provide to authors and readers as related to access and use of research data,� says Mark Hahnel, CEO of Figshare. “Chemistry is a central science that is integral to both laboratory and computational research; providing access to data and other supporting information is vital to assessing reproducibility of experimental findings and to promoting scientific research integrity. Figshare is pleased to partner with the ACS, who is at the cutting edge in providing publishing technologies and database information services for researchers in chemistry and the allied sciences.�

Figshare availability will be rolled out in the coming months across the ACS Publications portfolio of journals. Researchers can access the ACS Publications/Figshare portal at and preview now the interactive viewer available for an ACS Editorsâ€� Choice open access article recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø at .

ACS Publications, a division of the American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø, is a nonprofit scholarly publisher of nearly 50 peer-reviewed journals and a range of eBooks at the interface of chemistry and allied sciences, including physics and biology. ACS Publications journals are among the most cited, most trusted and most read within the scientific literature. Respected for their editorial rigor, ACS journals offer high quality service to authors and readers, including rapid time to publication, a range of channels for researchers to access the Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø’s cutting-edge Web and mobile delivery platforms, and a comprehensive program of Open Access options for authors and their funders. ACS Publications also publishes Chemical & Engineering News â€� the Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø’s newsmagazine covering science and technology, business and industry, government and policy, education, and employment aspects of the chemistry field.

The American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 158,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

Figshare is the research data management tool for researchers, academic institutions and publishers. The platform allows any file format to be presented and visualized in a customized browser so that illustrative figures, data and other file sets, diverse audio visual media, papers, posters and presentations can be disseminated in a way that complements traditional scholarly publishing technologies. Figshare is a portfolio company of Digital Science.