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 →Following the success of our first three-year Read & Publish Open Access (OA) agreement with IReL, we 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 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 →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 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 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 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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Read More →IReL’s office, based in Maynooth University, has closed, but its staff are continuing to work remotely. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of IReL’s partner publishers and vendors are supporting researchers and students by making content freely available during the crisis. They are typically doing this by either: removing paywall restrictions on COVID-19 related …
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Read More →IReL will participate in Annual Reviews’ Subscribe to Open pilot initiative, which will flip five of its subscription titles to Open Access (OA) from January 2020. The five journals are: Annual Review of Cancer Biology Annual Review of Environment and Resources Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science Annual Review of Political Science Annual Review …
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Read More →IReL are delighted to announce that from 2020, all of TU Dublin will join publisher agreements as they are renewed, making IReL resources available to all TU Dublin staff and students. In 2019, TU Dublin City Campus (the former DIT) joined IReL. From 2020, TU Dublin’s Blanchardstown and Tallaght campuses (the former Institute Of Technology …
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