ACS Subscriptions and Tokens

What are tokens? Tokens are metered counts for every time you read or download an article from the American Chemical Society that is not a Concordia subscription. This includes ebooks and journal articles.

How many tokens does Concordia have? 150 per year for all of Concordia. Counted from Jan - Dec.

When is a token counted? Every time you read or download an article within ACS that is not a Concordia subscription. 

Examples: If you open the same article 2 times from ACS, 2 tokens are used. 

Best practices for limiting token use:  

Download article to personal hard drive or storage space. Use stored article rather than reopening the article within ACS.

When practicing search skills in American Chemical Society Journals or CAS SciFinder-n limit search to date range to 2003-2015.

Use WorldCat Discovery to filter by our ACS subscriptions.

Copy the article title and paste title in WorldCat Discovery. If we do not have a subscription a  button will appear. When our tokens are used up you can try Interlibrary Loan.

Remember to check if we have a print copy of an older article.