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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). Further details below.

Agreement period: 1 March 2021 – 31 December 2023

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.

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: all types of articles are included.

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

OA quota per year:  414 articles for full term (1 Mar 2021 – 31 Dec 2023). Allocated across the participating institutions on a first-com-first-served basis. 

Further information: