Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Access to:
- current content from all of OUP’s subscription journals.
- OUP reference resources:
- Oxford Art Online: Grove Art
- Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) (Technological University Dublin only)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
- Oxford Music Online
- Oxford Reference Online (ORO) Premium
- The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in eligible OUP journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.
Agreement period: 1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2023
Participating members
- Dublin City University
- Maynooth University
- National University Ireland, Galway
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Teagasc
- Technological University Dublin
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- University College Dublin
- University of Limerick
Publisher pages:
- https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/authors/production_and_publication/publication-charges/read-and-publish-agreements/irish-institutions-irel-affiliated
- OUP Open Access Account User Guide
Eligible journals:
- all 84 OUP published open access journals and over 360 hybrid journals (subscription journals which include open access content). 20 titles are subscription-only so do not currently offer open access. Title lists (correct as of April 2021).
- see list of all the eligible journals in all IReL TAs, including OUP: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.
Eligible authors: at the time of an article is accepted for publication, the corresponding author must be a current staff member or student with a participating institution.
Eligible article types: research articles and reviews only. Excluded: book reviews, letters to editor etc.
OA quota per year:
- 2021:
- 111 articles in hybrid journals. As of 6 October 2021, we project that this limited allocation will be fully used by late October 2021.
- 2 in fully-OA journals. As of June 2021, this allocation is fully spent.
- 2022:
- 117 articles in hybrid journals
- 2 in fully-OA journals
- 2022:
- 122 articles in hybrid journals
- 3 in fully-OA journals
OA publishing license: Journals offer one or more of the following, depending on the journal: CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC 4.0, and CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Further information: