Royal Society of Chemistry

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

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

Agreement period: 1 Jan 2025 to 31 Dec 2028

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://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/open-access/read-and-publish/ 

OA quota per year: unlimited

Journals eligible for OA publishing:

  • all RSC journals (both hybrid and Gold)
  • see the list of eligible journals in all of IReL’s open access agreements:  http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.

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. 

Eligible article types: all research articles and review papers. 

OA publishing license: either a CC-BY 3.0  or a CC BY-NC 3.0 license, granting the publisher non-exclusive right of use. Authors of open access articles retain copyright to the article. The licence versions will move to version 4.0 during 2022.

Further information: