IReL has signed its first transformative open access agreement with SAGE Publishing. The three-year Read and Publish deal will provide expanded open access publishing opportunities for corresponding authors at IReL member institutions. This transformative agreement will enable member institutions to access SAGE’s portfolio of over 1100 journals across the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology […]

IReL is very pleased to announce a four year (2021-2024) Read and Publish agreement with the publisher John Wiley & Sons. The agreement will allow member institutions continued access to the complete collection over one thousand journal published by Wiley. It will also allow authors from the institutions to make their Wiley published articles open […]

IReL members now subscribes to the Springer Computer Sciences eBook Collection, which supercedes our license to the Lecture Notes on Computer Science series. The larger Computer Sciences collection publishes around 1,200 book per year. We will have immediate access to all the content, including all LNCS titles, as they are published in 2021.  We will retain […]

With the participation of IReL, Ireland now becomes the 44th country in the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3), the world’s largest disciplinary open access (OA) initiative. This is welcome news for all high-energy physics researchers in Ireland, as it allows them to continue to publish OA in the sponsored journals, […]

IReL announces R&P open access agreement with the Royal Irish Academy IReL is pleased to announce a 2021-2023 Read and Publish agreement with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), the first such agreement with an Irish publisher. Articles by university-affiliated corresponding authors that are accepted for publication from 1 January 2021 in RIA journals will be […]

IReL is very pleased to announce they have signed a 3 year ‘Publish and Read’ agreement with the Microbiology Society. The agreement from January 2021 to December 2023 will allow eligible authors to publish unlimited open access articles in Microbiology Society journals under a CC-BY license. It also provides read access to the Societies four […]

IReL has purchased journal backfile collections from Sage, American Medical Association and Wiley. Typically, our publisher subscription agreements do not give us access to all issues of a journal: our so-called frontfile entitlements give us access to issues published from the late 1990s (when journals first became available online) to present. The backfiles, issues published […]

IReL is very pleased to announce our latest open access agreement: with the American Institute of Physics. The agreement, from January 2020 to December 2022, will allow all accepted articles from IReL member corresponding authors to be immediately open access upon publication. Articles will be shared under a CC-BY license and authors will retain copyright.  […]