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 …
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Read More →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 …
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Read More →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 →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 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 →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, 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 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, 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 →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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