Microbiology Society 🔓

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

  • Access to the contents of 8 Microbiology Society journals.
  • The ability to make their articles accepted for publication as open access without author-facing article processing charges (APCs) in Microbiology Society journals. See a current list of eligible titles here: OA Journal List

Agreement period: 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026

Participating members:

  • Dublin City University  
  • Maynooth University   
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
  • Technological University Dublin 
  • Trinity College Dublin 
  • University College Cork  
  • University College Dublin 
  • University of Galway
  • University of Limerick 
  • Teagasc

OA quota per year:

Unlimited Open Access

Journals included for OA publishing: 

See a list of all the eligible journals in all IReL TAs: OA Journal List

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:

published under the terms of the CC-BY licence;

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