American Chemical Society

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

  • Access to current content from ACS journals.
  • The ability to make articles accepted for publication in almost all ACS journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.

Agreement period: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2025

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

Publisher page: https://acsopenscience.org/customers/irel/ 

OA quota per year: 111 articles, to be used by participating members on a first-come-first-served basis. As of June 2025, we expect that the 2025 quota will run out in July. 

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: