Agreement period: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2025
ACS Journals (Open Access)
https://acsopenscience.org/customers/irel/
Participating members:
- Dublin City University
- Maynooth University
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Technological University Dublin
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- University College Dublin
- University of Galway
- University of Limerick
OA quota per year: 111 articles, to be used by participating members on a first-come-first-served basis. 2025 quota alert: as of Fri 5 Sep, this quote is now fully used. OA will not be offered to authors for the rest of 2025. IReL is negotiating with ACS for a new agreement from 2026.
Journals eligible for OA publishing: almost all ACS journals. See our list of all OA eligible journals in IReL’s agreements.
Eligible authors: the corresponding author is a current staff member or student of a participating member institution at the time an article is accepted for publication. Invitations to make articles OA are subject to approval by member institutions.
Eligible article types: any peer-reviewed articles.
OA publishing license: CC-BY only.
Further information: