Introduction: this agreements gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Access to current content from RIA’s six journals.
- 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.
Agreement period:
- 1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2023 (initial agreement)
- 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 (new agreement)
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 of Advanced Studies (from Jan 2024)
- Mary Immaculate College (from Jan 2024)
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: