American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

In 2023, archived articles from volume 87 Issue 1 through to the 2023 Volume Issue 4 will be freely available on https://www.ajpe.org/. 

Recently accepted articles and all future articles will be made available on ScienceDirect (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/american-journal-of-pharmaceutical-education) and the new journal homepage, https://www.aacpajpe.org/.

For those individuals who are at an AACP institutional member, you will be able to access AJPE in the same way that your library provides you access to other Journals, regardless of whether you are an individual AACP member.

For those individuals who are at an AACP institutional member, you will be able to access AJPE in the same way that your library provides you access to other Journals, regardless of whether you are an individual AACP member.

AACP individual members get full text access by going to www.aacp.org, News and Media, then hovering over American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. You would then initiate the connection by choosing Member Login. Remember, if you do not authenticate at AACP first, the full text online content of the Journal will not be presented to you since the journal site will not recognize you as a member with access to the content.

Article abstracts are freely available to the public, however, full-text online access is reserved for AACP members and journal subscribers. Individual articles are available for purchase. For information about becoming an AACP member, click here. Non-member subscription options will be added at a future date.

There are a few ways in which you can access full text for new articles starting in May.

If your university or institution is a member of AACP or subscribes to the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection, you can access the journal as you would any other journal article through your institution, so long as your device is connected to the institutional network.

If you are an individual member of AACP, and not affiliated with an academic institution as described above, you will need to visit the AACP website at www.aacp.org, hover over News and Media, then American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. Next you will select Member Login. The website will recognize you as a member of AACP entitled to full text access. Not a member and want to subscribe, consider becoming an AACP member. If you have any questions on how to access the Journal, please email ajpe@ajpe.org. 

There will be no fee to submit your manuscript.

Authors will have two options to publish their manuscripts: 

• (Default) as a subscription article available to all AACP members and AJPE subscribers. There is no fee associated with this option. 
• As an open access article for which there is an Article Publishing Charge (APC). In 2023, that APC is $2,400. 

There is no change in where you can submit your manuscript to AJPE: https://www.ajpe.org/page/submit/a/manuscript

You will have the option to include:

1. Color Figures are no extra cost,
2. Graphical Abstracts,
3. Supplemental Information embedded within your published article,
4. Article Highlights or bullet points that help increase the discoverability of your article via search engines. There is also greater flexibility on the number of references that can be cited in your manuscript.

The AJPE Editorial Team will still be responsible for managing the review of your manuscript. AJPE Editors will now have access to a larger pool of potential reviewers for your manuscript through the Standalone Find Reviewers Tool and Scopus.

There will be increased exposure to a global audience as your paper will now be hosted on ScienceDirect, the world’s premier platform of peer-reviewed literature. ScienceDirect has 1 billion annual visits and over 17,000 licenses around the globe.

Your accepted manuscript, on average, will be available within 48 hours in pre-release format. There will be faster time to the final published article with article-based publishing that will involve proof corrections through a state-of-the-art online proofing tool.

You and your authors will now have access to the following services:

• There will be automated delivery of your article to PubMed and PubMed Central.
• You will receive a ShareLink for your article, a customized link to your article on ScienceDirect that provides 50 days’ free access to all readers.
• You will be able to track the impact of your article through PlumX metrics. 
• You will have free resources to promote your research.
• You will have access to the Elsevier for Authors and Access to 24/7 Support Teams.

There is no change in this process as you will receive an invitation to review a manuscript via email from the AJPE Editorial team.

You will have access to the Reviewer Resources and the 24/7 Support Teams. In addition, you will now have the availability of and integration of your reviews with the Elsevier Reviewer Hub. As a reviewer, you will be able to track your activity, gain credit and rewards for your work. Reviewers will be able to get certificates plus free access to ScienceDirect and Scopus.