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: