Note: IReL is currently negotiating renewal of this agreement from January 2024. For more information see our update on 2024 TA renewals
Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Access to:
- current content from all of OUP’s subscription journals, including new journals added during the Agreement
- 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
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Teagasc
- Technological University Dublin
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- University College Dublin
- University of Galway
- University of Limerick
- Atlantic Technological University (from Jan 2023: Read and Publish journal agreement only; excluding OUP reference resources)
- Institute of Art, Design + Technology (from Jan 2023: Read and Publish journal agreement only; excluding OUP reference resources)
- Dundalk Institute of Technology (from Jan 2023: Read and Publish journal agreement only; excluding OUP reference resources)
- Munster Technological University (from Jan 2023: Read and Publish journal agreement only; excluding OUP reference resources)
- South East Technological University (from Jan 2023: Read and Publish journal agreement only; excluding OUP reference resources)
- Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (from Jan 2023: Read and Publish journal agreement only; excluding OUP reference resources)
- Mary Immaculate College (from Jan 2023)
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 OUP hybrid journals (subscription journals which include open access content). ~20 OUP journals are subscription-only so do not currently offer open access.
- see the list of all the eligible journals in all IReL open access agreements, 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: all article types.
OA quota per year:
- Hybrid journals:
- 2021: 111 articles
- 2022: 117 articles
- 2023: 164 articles
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: