The IReL Negotiation Group has been busy finalising the renewal of several of our open access (OA) agreements and putting new OA agreements in place for 2025. All of our OA agreements are negotiated in line with our principles for transformative agreements: American Physical Society (now completed) ASME IOP Publishing (now completed) Optica Publishing Group […]
Read More →Licences must not restrict the use of AI to support equitable access to information
IReL endorses the ICOLC Statement on AI in Licensing IReL, the Irish Research e-Library, has endorsed the ICOLC Statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Licensing, along with a growing number of research libraries and licensing consortia worldwide. The ICOLC statement has been developed in response to concerns that new license language defining rights and restrictions related […]
Read More →National OA Monitor Launch Marks a New Chapter in the Irish Open Science Landscape
https://oamonitor.ireland.openaire.eu/ The National Open Research Forum (NORF), the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL), and OpenAIRE proudly announce the launch of the National Open Access Monitor, a cornerstone in Ireland’s shift towards a fully open access research ecosystem. This launch marks a significant phase in a project that began months ago, following OpenAIRE’s selection through a […]
Read More →Minister Simon Harris congratulates authors at Irish universities on choosing to publish their research open access
The Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) has published an analysis of the publication data from its 2022 open access agreements with publishers. This most recent data from agreements with 24 academic publishers shows that 3,121 articles were published open access with the support of IReL in 2022. This is an increase on the 2,813 articles that […]
Read More →New IReL OA agreements in 2024
IReL is in the final stages of negotiating new transformative agreements with the following publishers. BMJ (now completed) ECS (now completed) Emerald (now completed) IEEE (now completed) Microbiology Society (now completed) Oxford University Press (now completed) Royal Irish Academy (now completed) Royal Society (now completed) Sage (now completed) Taylor and Francis (now completed) We are […]
Read More →Free Wiley webinars for researchers
Wiley are running the following upcoming webinars covering a number of useful topics around getting your article published, as well as other aspects of the publishing process. These are led by editorial colleagues from across Wiley, and would be of particular interest to researchers considering publishing research for the first time. Further information on Wiley […]
Read More →IReL’s approach to the negotiation of transformative agreements
Since 2020, IReL has replaced most of its traditional journal subscription licenses with transformative OA agreements. The IReL Steering Group recognises that such agreements are transitional, and in a statement published today outlines: its requirements for new transformative agreements from 2024, and its longer term plans for ending such agreements Read the full statement: Towards […]
Read More →Vacancy: Community Engagement Officer
IReL seeks to appoint a Community Engagement Officer to support the consortium’s members and ensure stakeholders within the Irish higher education and research sector are informed about and engaged with IReL’s work to support access to research outputs. Closing Date for applications: Sunday, 30th of April 2023.
Read More →IReL’s year in review, 2022
As we near the end of 2022, an overview of IReL’s work, challenges and achievements during the year: Expanding IReL membership: work has been ongoing to prepare for new institutions joining the consortium in 2023 – we’ll be announcing details of this very soon. Our work included securing additional funding; coordination between the new members […]
Read More →Minister Harris announces progress in Open Access to Irish research, benefitting researchers, students and citizens
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has announced that the IReL initiative, funded by the Department, is succeeding in making Irish research publications openly available. Read the full press release from the Department here.
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