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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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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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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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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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 …

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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

Press release from Ireland’s Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: “Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris has today (Monday, 24 May 2021) welcomed Ireland taking a huge step forward in providing open access to research. The IReL initiative, funded by the Department of Further and …

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The agreement, which lasts through 2025, will allow all ACS articles published at IReL’s nine participating institutions to be made open access. Additionally, researchers and students will continue to enjoy full access to ACS’ suite of more than 75 premier journals. Further information full press release details of the agreement on irel.ie

Oxford University Press has reached a transformative read and publish agreement with IReL. The three-year deal enables users at the ten participating institutions to access the full OUP journals collection of more than 340 prestigious, highly cited titles. The comprehensive publishing side of the agreement enables authors at the institutions to publish their research open …

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