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 …
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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.
Read More →APA, IReL reach ‘read and publish’ agreement
The American Psychological Association and IReL have reached a “read and publish” agreement that will combine reading access to APA journals with immediate open access publishing for IReL authors. Read the full press release on APA’s website. Further information on the agreement.
Read More →PLOS and IReL Sign Three Year Open Access Publishing Agreement
PLOS, the non-profit open access publisher, and IReL, the Irish library consortium, today announced a new three year open access agreement, which allows researchers at eight participating institutions to publish open access articles in PLOS journals. This agreement is IReL’s twentieth open access agreement and its first with a fully open access publisher. …
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Read More →IReL begins SAGE Research Methods Core agreement
IReL is very pleased to announce that for the next six years, it’s members will have have access to SAGE Research Methods Core, “the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books …
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Read More →IReL support for open scholarship infrastructure
IReL, the Irish e-resources licensing consortium, is very pleased to announce that it is supporting the following SCOSS-endorsed initiatives: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) & OAPEN Sherpa Romeo Much of the infrastructure needed to make open research possible must be openly available without user-facing or institution-facing charges. This …
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Read More →Webinar: IEEE Open Access Workflow for Authors
Date: 22 September 2021Time: 4:00 pm to 4:40 pm The new agreement between IReL and IEEE makes it more convenient for authors to publish open access articles with IEEE as eligible authors pay no article processing charges (APCs).This session will cover:• Why Open Access with IEEE?• IEEE Publication Recommender• IEEE Open Access Agreements with Irish …
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Read More →IEEE and IReL expand access to Irish technology research with new transformative OA agreement
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced that it has reached an open access read and publish agreement with IReL, the Irish licensing consortium. The transformative read and publish agreement enables corresponding IReL authors to publish open access articles in IEEE’s industry-leading journals and provides continued reading access …
Read More →Irish institutions to benefit from IOP Publishing transformative agreement
IOP Publishing has signed a transformative agreement with IReL. Through the ‘read and publish’ agreement, which lasts until the end of 2024, authors affiliated with eight member institutions of the consortium can publish open access papers in IOPP’s hybrid journals, with no article publication charges for qualifying articles at the point of publication. Read the full announcement
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