Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions read access to the full collection of ACS journals, including the full archive of back issues
Agreement period: 1 January 2026 – 31 December 2026
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
Open Access:
- The agreement does not include provision to publish open access at no cost to the author. In lieu of this, authors affiliated with participating institutions:
- may make their works open access by depositing a copy of the author accepted manuscript in a public repository with a CC-BY license and with no embargo period. No charge applies for this.
- may publish the version of record of their article (ie the publisher branded version) open access by paying a discounted article processing charge (APC). The discount applies to hybrid journals only: $2,000 for a CC-BY license, $1,500 for CC-BY-NC-ND.
Further information: https://acsopenscience.org/institutions/institutional-open-access-agreements/#read-and-green