IReL is pleased to announce a new open access publishing agreement with ACM. Under this new arrangement, authors across participating IReL member institutions will be eligible for uncapped open access publishing rights with ACM, subject to standard article review and acceptance processes. This means that eligible authors will be able to publish open access in […]
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Since 2025, IReL has been promoting and coordinating members’ supports for Diamond open access publishing. Diamond open access means OA without any barriers to participation: the content is freely available to anyone to read or reuse, and authors anywhere are free to publish their works without publication charges or needing to be eligible for OA publishing agreements. IReL already funds support for OA without barriers (such as with our […]
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IReL has signed a new three-year agreement with AIP Publishing. The agreement covers eight participating Irish institutions and expands access to AIP Publishing’s portfolio of physical sciences research while supporting a sustainable, transparent transition to open access publishing. Under the terms of the agreement, researchers affiliated with participating IReL institutions will benefit from streamlined publishing […]
Read More →IReL is happy to welcome Andra Matthews to the team as our new Licencing Officer. In this role, she will work with publishers, IReL member libraries and IReL colleagues to negotiate and manage a large number of IReL’s license agreements, and ensure that these agreements meet IReL’s Principles for Negotiations.
Read More →From 1st January 2026, IReL’s new one-year agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS) will provide read-only access to ACS content. Unfortunately, despite extensive negotiations with the publisher, an agreement on pricing and terms for open access publishing could not be reached. IReL remains committed to supporting open access and will continue to work with […]
Read More →IReL is delighted to announce the renewal of its five-journal Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. Building on the success of our previous partnerships, we have signed a new agreement that will run from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028. Corresponding authors at participating institutions in Ireland can publish an uncapped number of […]
Read More →Academic publisher De Gruyter Brill and the consortium Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) are pleased to announce the signing of a new agreement which gives over two hundred thousand researchers, staff and students at eighteen participating IReL member institutions access to the complete collection of De Gruyter Brill journals while allowing affiliated authors to publish their research open […]
Read More →Open Repositories Ireland (ORI) has recently strengthened their collaboration with IReL, forming a key alliance with the National Open Access Monitor. This partnership was formalised in September when Aaron Binchy, IReL’s Open Access Monitor Officer, assumed coordination duties for ORI. Both initiatives, rooted in NORF recommendations, aim to unify Ireland’s open research infrastructure and advance […]
Read More →IReL held a workshop entitled “The Next Phase of Open Research Monitoring in Ireland: Community Priorities and Practice“, as part National Open Research Festival (NORFest) and took place in the Royal Irish Academy. This workshop focused on open research monitoring in Ireland and explored possibilities for the next phase of community engagement around national monitoring infrastructure. […]
Read More →We are pleased to announce that from January 2026, Ireland’s Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology will be joining IReL’s agreement with Emerald Group Publishing. This will give their staff and students access to Emerald’s Premier journal collection and allow them to publish an uncapped number of open access articles in the journals without publication […]
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