Optica Publishing Group

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

• Access to Optics InfoBase Premium, which includes all OPG content  
• The ability to make articles accepted for publication in eligible Optica Publishing Group journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC) (see table below for eligible titles)

Agreement period: January 2022 – 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
•     Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
•     Technological University Dublin
•     Trinity College Dublin
•     University College Cork
•     University College Dublin
•     University of Galway
•     University of Limerick

Publisher page: https://opg.optica.org/submit/review/institutional_OA.cfm#institutionalOA

OA quota per year: 20 articles

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 provided to the publisher as part of the manuscript submission process. 
• Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by participating members. Requests for approval will be sent via RightsLink for Scientific Communication.

Eligible article types:

• Research Articles
• Letters
• Memoranda
• Discussions
• Mini-Reviews
• Tutorials
• Opinions
• Negative Results
• Reproducibility Studies
• Comments
• Replies
• Engineering & Laboratory Notes

Further information:

• Publisher page: https://opg.optica.org/
  • Author Resource Center: https://opg.optica.org/author/author.cfm
• Agreement [link]
• listing on ESAC registry of transformative agreements [link]