IReL welcomes Dolores Mee to the team. Dolores has recently been appointed Communications Officer and has previously worked with the Kildare Library and Arts Service. In this new role, Dolores will provide support IReL members and engage with stakeholders.
Read More →IReL’s 2024 open access negotiations
IReL is currently engaging with publishers to renew of the following transformative agreements: BMJ Emerald IEEE Microbiology Society Nature Cell Press OUP Royal Irish Academy Royal Society Sage Taylor & Francis Negotiations will be in line with the IReL Statement on TAs 2023 and aim to maintain our current read access to content and the …
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Read More →IREL Open Access Analyst
IReL is pleased to announce that Annika Lindh has joined the IReL team in the newly created position of Open Access Analyst. Annika will be working on enhancing our understanding of the usage and impact of our open access publisher agreements. She says “happy to be part of the IReL team! I’m looking forward to …
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Read More →Participate in the National Open Access Monitor project
Registration is now open for stakeholders to patriciate in the National Open Access Monitor project. We encourage anyone with a role in currently (or potentially) monitoring open access to research publications in Ireland, or who will enable monitoring of open access in Ireland, or who will use the resulting open access Monitor, to contribute to …
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Read More →The Company of Biologists and IReL renew Open Access
Following the success of our first three-year Read & Publish Open Access (OA) agreement with IReL, The Company of Biologists are delighted to announce that we have signed a renewal agreement from 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2025. Click here for more information
Read More →IReL to develop National Open Access Monitor
IReL are very pleased that we have been selected by the National Open Research Forum (NORF) to develop the National Open Access Monitor. Dr Catherine Ferris will lead the project, which will analyse and track progress towards a national target of 100% OA to research publications. Congratulations to our colleagues in University of Galway, Royal …
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Read More →2021 Springer, Oxford University Press, Wiley and Elsevier (ScienceDirect) Open Access publication quota will be reached soon
Agreements with the SpringerNature, Oxford University Press, Wiley and Elsevier (ScienceDirect) allow for a specific number of articles per year to be published Open Access. The 2021 quotas for the above publishers, will be reached soon: Springer by late October OUP by late October Wiley by late October Elsevier: varies per institution, contact your institution’s library for further information There remain alternative ways to make work open access: Submitting works to a disciplinary or institutional repository (IReL members’ libraries can advise on this) If your publication was …
Read More →IReL sign Publish & Read agreement with the Microbiology Society
IReL is very pleased to announce they have signed a 3 year ‘Publish and Read’ agreement with the Microbiology Society. The agreement from January 2021 to December 2023 will allow eligible authors to publish unlimited open access articles in Microbiology Society journals under a CC-BY license. It also provides read access to the Societies four …
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Read More →IReL sign Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists
IReL is delighted to announce it has signed a Read and Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. The agreement provides eligible authors with unlimited publishing of open access articles in CoB journals, at no cost to the researcher. In addition the agreement also provides read access to these journals Development Journal of Cell Science …
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Read More →IReL sign transformative open access agreement with ACM
IReL is pleased to announce a transformative open access agreement with ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery. The agreement will provide unlimited and unrestricted access to ACM Digital Library during the term and all publications from corresponding authors from IReL institutions published during the term in ACM journals, conference proceedings and magazines will be made …
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