Royal Irish Academy 🔓

Agreement period: 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026

RIA Journals (Open Access)

Publisher page: https://www.ria.ie/journals

Participating Members:  

• Dublin City University  
• Maynooth University  
• Technological University Dublin 
• Trinity College Dublin 
• University College Cork  
• University College Dublin 
• University of Galway
• University of Limerick
• Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (from Jan 2024)
• Mary Immaculate College (from Jan 2024)

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

1. Access to current content from RIA’s six journals.

2. The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in RIA’s journals open access without author-facing article processing charges (APCs). Further details below. 

OA quota per year: unlimited

Journals eligible for OA publishing:

• RIA’s six journals.
• also see the list of eligible journals in all of IReL’s open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.

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: rapid-communication; reply; research-article; translation. 

OA publishing license: CC-BY by default, other Creative Commons options offered

Further information:

• IReL-RIA 2021-2023 agreement – listing on ESAC registry of transformative agreements
• IReL-RIA 2024-2026 agreement – listing on ESAC registry of transformative agreements