American Psychological Association (APA)

Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:

  • Access to PsycINFO and PsycArticles. 
  • The ability to make their APA articles open access without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).

Agreement period: 1 Aug 2022 – 31 Dec 2024

  • IReL is currently in negotiations with the publisher for a new agreement from 2025. We will update this page when a new agreement is finalised, but we can not provide details in advance of this

Participating members:

  • Dublin City University
  • Mary Immaculate College
  • Maynooth University
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (access to PsycINFO only, not PsycArticles. RCSI does not participate in OA publishing element of this agreement)
  • Technological University Dublin
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • University College Cork
  • University College Dublin
  • University of Galway
  • University of Limerick
  • Munster Technological University (PsycArticles only from Aug 2024 to Dec 2024)
  • Institute of Art, Design + Technology (PsycArticles only from Aug 2024 to Dec 2024)

Publisher page:

OA quota per year: unlimited.

Journals eligible for OA publishing:

Eligible authors: the corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time the article is accepted for publication. 

Eligible article types: Journal Article. 

OA publishing license: CC-BY only.   

Further information: