Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
Access to the contents of:
- Journal of Cell Biology (Online ISSN 1540-8140)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (Online ISSN 1540-9538)
- Journal of General Physiology (Online ISSN 1540-7748)
The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in:
- Journal of Cell Biology (Online ISSN 1540-8140)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (Online ISSN 1540-9538)
- Journal of General Physiology (Online ISSN 1540-7748)
open access without author-facing article processing charges (APCs).
Further details below.
Agreement period: 1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 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
Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and Journal of General Physiology (JGP) have secured Plan S compliant Transformative Journal status from cOAlition S. Rockefeller University Press (RUP) has made Open Access (OA) publishing a core part of its mission
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:
RUP – Transformative Agreement
OA quota per year: Unlimited
Unlimited Open Access publishing
Journals eligible for OA publishing:
- Journal of Cell Biology (Online ISSN 1540-8140)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (Online ISSN 1540-9538)
- Journal of General Physiology (Online ISSN 1540-7748)
The agreement also provides read access to these titles:
- Journal of Cell Biology (Online ISSN 1540-8140)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (Online ISSN 1540-9538)
- Journal of General Physiology (Online ISSN 1540-7748)
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.
Eligible article types:
The following article types: Article, Brief Definitive Report, Communication, Hypothesis, Methods and Approaches, Report, Technical Advances and Resources, and Tools.
OA publishing license
CC-BY