Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Access to all issues of all journals published by De Gruyter Brill
- The ability to make articles accepted for publication in all De Gruyter Brill journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.
Agreement period: 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2028
Publisher page: TBC
Participating members:
- Atlantic Technological University
- Dublin City University
- Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
- Dundalk Institute of Technology
- Institute of Art, Design + Technology
- Mary Immaculate College
- Maynooth University
- Munster Technological University
- Royal College of Surgeons In Ireland
- South East Technological University
- Teagasc
- Technological University Dublin
- Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- University College Dublin
- University Of Galway
- University Of Limerick
OA quota per year: uncapped
Journals eligible for OA publishing:
- all De Gruyter Brill journals (Hybrid and Gold/fully-OA journals)
- 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 use their institutional email when submitting in order to be recognised as eligible.
Eligible article types: Original Paper, Review, Book Review, Continuing Education, Case Reports , Juristic Paper and Brief Communication.
OA publishing license: all OA articles supported by this agreement will use a CC-BY license, apart from a small number of journals which only use CC BY-NC-ND.
Further information:
- 2026-2028 agreement
- Full text of the agreement (coming soon)
- listing on ESAC registry of transformative agreements (coming soon)