Introduction:  this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Access to the contents in all American Physical Society hybrid journals
- The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in American Physical Society hybrid journals, open access without author-facing article processing charges (APCs). Further details below.
Agreement period:  1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2029
Participating Members: 
- Dublin City University  Â
- Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesÂ
- Maynooth University  Â
- Technological University Dublin Â
- Trinity College Dublin Â
- University College Cork  Â
- University College Dublin Â
- University of GalwayÂ
- University of Limerick Â
OA quota per year: Uncapped
Journals eligible for OA publishing:
- See the list of eligible journals in all of IReL’s open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.
Eligible authors
- Current members of the faculty, students and other staff at the Member Institution . Eligible Authors must be current staff or students at the Member Institution at the Editorial Acceptance Date. The corresponding author must ensure their correct affiliation details are known to the publisher at this time.
- Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by participating members.
Eligible article types:Â Any peer-reviewed articles.
OA publishing license:Â CC-BY only.
Further information
- Publisher page IReL Consortium (Ireland) Open Access Agreement
- OA Submissions Workflow
- APS article Approval Process
- 2025-2029 Agreement
- Agreement details on ESAC Registry of Transformative Agreements 
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