Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Access to current content from the Emerald Premier journal collection, including new titles added during the agreement.
- The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in eligible Emerald journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.
Agreement period: 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026
Participating Members
- Dublin City University
- University College Dublin
- Technological University Dublin
- Royal College Surgeons In Ireland
- University College Cork
- Maynooth University
- University of Galway
- University Of Limerick
- Trinity College Dublin
- Mary Immaculate College
Publisher page: The IRel & Emerald open access partnership
Journals included for OA publishing: all Emerald Premier journals. See either:
- Emerald Premier journal list, or
- list of all the journals IReL affiliated authors can publish OA with under our open access publisher agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.
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. The corresponding author must ensure their correct affiliation details are known to the publisher at this time.
Eligible article types: all peer-reviewed articles. This includes, but is not limited to, the following peer-reviewed article types:
- Research Paper
- Practitioner Paper
- Case Study
- General Review
- Literature Review
- Precis
- Original Article
- Empirical Research Article
- Standard Paper
- Article
- Conceptual Paper
- Technical Paper
OA publishing license: CC-BY only
OA quota per year: unlimited
Author information:
Further information
- 2021-2023 agreement
- 2024-2026 agreement