Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Read access to current content from 14 selected Cell Press journals.
- The ability to make articles accepted for publication in all hybrid Cell Press journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.
Agreement period: 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026
Participating members:
- Dublin City University
- Maynooth University
- Royal College Surgeons In Ireland
- Technological University Dublin
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- University College Dublin
- University Of Galway
- University Of Limerick
OA quota per year: 22 articles per year, which we project is more than sufficient to cover all eligible articles during the agreement
Journals eligible for OA publishing:
- See our list of eligible journals in all of IReL’s open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.
- Noting that this agreement covers hybrid Cell Press journals only. A separate agreement covers OA for the Cell Press Gold (fully open access) journals.
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.
- Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by participating members.
Eligible article types:
- Case reports
- Data in Briefs
- Full-length articles
- Micro-articles
- Original software publication
- Practice guidelines
- Protocols
- Review articles
- Replication studies
- Short communications
- Short surveys
- Video articles
OA publishing license: choice of CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND
Further information: