Institute of Physics

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

  • Access to current content from IOP’s IOPscience extra collection.
  • The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in eligible IOP journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.

Agreement period: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 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  
  • Maynooth University  
  • Technological University Dublin 
  • Trinity College Dublin 
  • University College Cork  
  • University College Dublin 
  • University of Galway
  • University of Limerick

Publisher page: https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/researchers-from-ireland/

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. 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: papers, special issue papers, reviews and letters. 

OA publishing license: CC-BY

Further information: