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 […]
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The Company of Biologists Read & Publish Agreement Renewed for Three Years
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 →New De Gruyter Brill Read & Publish Agreement
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 →Strengthening Open Repository Collaboration in Ireland
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 →NORFest 2025 Workshop Report
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 →IReL Persistent Identifiers Webinar – Programme
We are happy to share the programme for our forthcoming PID Community Webinar, which takes place on Wednesday, 30th July from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm (Irish Time). The webinar will feature presentations from consortium members sharing their experiences with ORCID and DataCite integration, along with insights from PID organisation providers. Our goal is to […]
Read More →Project Support Officer joins IReL team
IReL is delighted to welcome Kyle Adams to the team. Kyle has been appointed Project Support Officer and is joining us from Perrett Laver where he worked as a Research Associate. In this new role, Kyle will support the administration and execution of a broad range of activities, centred around the development and expansion of […]
Read More →Subscribe to Open (S2O) and IReL
Subscribe to Open (S2O) is an innovative OA business model designed to transition scholarly publications from traditional subscription-based access to open access (OA) without authors or their institutions facing publication charges. Under S2O, academic libraries continue to renew their subscriptions with the promise that, if enough libraries participate, the journal’s content will be made freely […]
Read More →Next generation OA publishing deals
The NORF Action Plan aspires that “by 2030 Ireland will have implemented a sustainable and inclusive course for achieving 100% open access to research publications.” While IReL’s current suite of over 20 transformative OA publishing agreements have been a success in rapidly accelerating the volume of Irish works make immediately open on publication, they have […]
Read More →Vacancy: Project Support Officer (Specified Purpose Contract)
IReL is seeking to appoint a Project Support Officer to oversee the administration and execution of a broad range of activities, centred around the development and expansion of IReL services. The role will be based in Maynooth University. Salary Scale: €46,241 – €56,265 p.a. (Senior Executive Assistant, 2025) This a full-time, temporary post, for a […]
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