American Chemical Society (ACS)

NOTE: - Quota has been used up for this year.

"OA mandates: please be aware that many funders (including Research Ireland) mandate that a version of the article be immediately available from the date of publication with a Creative Commons CC-BY license. If OA via the IReL agreement is not available to an author (such as when the limited OA quota runs out), ACS will levy author-facing fees to allow them to comply with funder mandates. This will be either a $4,500 article processing charge to make the published article OA, or an “article development charge” of ($2,500) to allow the author accepted manuscript be posted in a repository with a CC-BY license and without and embargo. Research Ireland grant funds may not be used for such fees in hybrid journals ."

Agreement period
1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2025

Agreement details
The open access publishing agreement with ACS allows corresponding authors from Maynooth University publish articles accepted for publication in eligible ACS journals open access without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).

Access to current content from ACS journals.

Eligible journals

• All ACS Journals.
• List of all the eligible journals in all IReL Tas:  http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.

OA quota per year

111 articles, to be used by participating members on a first-come first-served basis. 

Eligible authors
Where the corresponding author is a current staff member or student of Maynooth University at the time an article is accepted for publication in an ACS journal, the author will be invited to publish the article open access at no extra cost. 

Eligible article types

Any peer-reviewed article.

OA publishing license:

CC-BY only

Further information

• How to Publish Open Access for authors covered under an ACS Read + Publish Agreement 
• Agreement details on ESAC registry of transformative agreements