The IReL-RSC agreement (1 Jan 2025 to 31 Dec 2028) provides read access to current content from a fixed list of 27 RSC journals.
The agreement also ensures that articles accepted for publication in all (both hybrid and gold) RSC journals can be made available open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).
OA quota per year: The OA publishing fund with this agreement is unlimited. For more information see Royal Society of Chemistry – IReL
For your article submission to be included under the agreement, you must be the corresponding author and affiliated to 'University College Cork' at the time the article is accepted for publication. During the article submission process you must correctly identify your institution as 'University College Cork'. You must use your UCC email address, and not addresses from other domains.
Note: There is a limited quota of APCs which will cover a projected 50%-60% of participating member output per year. As of June, the allocation is expected to run out in November 2024. Authors who are not offered OA under this agreement have other options for making their works open access: either uploading a copy of your manuscript to the institutional repository (see RSC’s Green OA policy), or paying an APC to make the published version OA.
See publisher page.
Authors can continue to make their articles available using the Green open access model, subject to the journal’s policy. Deposit the accepted manuscript in CORA UCC's open access repository. Contact the CORA team at cora@ucc.ie
For queries about Open Access agreements and IReL resources, please contact:
For more general queries about Open Access:
All RSC journals (both hybrid and gold) can be made available open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).
See the full list of all eligible journals under current IReL Agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals
