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

  • Access to current content from IEEE Xplore. 
  • The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in eligible IEEE journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). 

Agreement period: 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026

Participating members:

  • Dublin City University  
  • Maynooth University  
  • Technological University Dublin 
  • Trinity College Dublin 
  • University College Cork  
  • University College Dublin 
  • University of Galway
  • University of Limerick 

Publisher page:  https://institutions.open.ieee.org/for-institutions-funders/institutional-partners/

Journals included for OA publishing:

  • all IEEE hybrid journals and fully open access journals. Selected subscription-only publications (mainly magazines) are excluded. See the IEEE journal title list
  • or see our list of eligible journals in all IReL open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.
  • Please note that some IEEE journals charge additional fees (e.g. overlength and color page charges), which are note covered by the IReL agreement. See individual journal author instructions for specific details.

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.
  • Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by participating members.

Eligible article types: Original Research articles.

OA publishing license: choice of a CC-BY or CC-BY NC-ND license. Authors sign a non-exclusive license to publish with the publisher. 

OA quota per year:  Allocated across the participating institutions on a first-come-first-served basis. Based on modelling in late 2023, we project that this allocation will meet demand for all eligible articles during the agreement’s term:

  • 2024: 230 articles
  • 2025: 220 articles
  • 2026: 210 articles

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