ACM Digital Library 🔓

Introduction: This agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:

  • Unlimited open access publishing rights for accepted articles in all ACM publications (except books) with no article processing charge (APC)
  • Access to the complete contents of ACM Digital Library Premium Version, including journals, conference proceedings and newsletters – ACM Digital Library (DL)

Agreement period: 1 Jan 2026 — 31 Dec 2028

The new IReL-ACM Open agreement for 2026 continues to provide access to the ACM Digital Library Premium Version, in addition to enabling all eligible corresponding authors affiliated with participating IReL institutions to publish their scholarly articles with ACM on an open access basis without needing to pay article processing charges (APC).

Participating Members

  • Atlantic Technological University
  • Dublin City University
  • Dundalk Institute of Technology
  • Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
  • Maynooth University
  • Munster Technological University
  • South East Technological University
  • Technological University Dublin
  • Technological University of the Shannon
  • Trinity College Dublin 
  • University College Cork  
  • University College Dublin 
  • University of Galway
  • University of Limerick

OA quota per Year:

Unlimited OA publishing

Journals eligible for OA publishing:

Eligible authors:

  • The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time the article is accepted for publication. The corresponding author must ensure their correct affiliation details are known to the publisher at this time. 
  • Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by participating members.

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