Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Agreement period: 1 Jan 2025 to 31 Dec 2028

This agreement gives current staff and students at Maynooth University:
Access to current content from a fixed list of 27 RSC journals
The ability to make articles accepted for publication in all hybrid RSC journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).
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.

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