SAGE

1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2023

• The IReL-SAGE Read and Publish agreement allows corresponding authors (where they are a current staff member or student with participating member institutions at the time the article is accepted for publication) to publish articles open access:
  • in SAGE Choice hybrid journals (subscription journals where some of the articles are open access) at no extra cost. See the Hybrid @ (£0) list here. 
  • with a 20% article processing charge (APC) discount in most SAGE Gold journals (fully open access journals). See the Gold OA (20% discount) list here. 
• For articles accepted for publication from Fri 19 Mar 2021: SAGE will invite eligible corresponding authors to make their articles open access on acceptance.
• For articles accepted between 1 Jan 2021 and 19 Mar 2021: eligible corresponding authors will be contacted by SAGE in late April 2021, inviting them to make the article open access retrospectively. 

Participating members

• Dublin City University  
• Maynooth University  
• National University Ireland, Galway 
• Technological University Dublin 
• Trinity College Dublin 
• University College Cork  
• University College Dublin 
• University of Limerick 

Information for authors

• SAGE’s guide to IReL & SAGE Premier Read and Publish Open Access Agreement. This includes:
  • IReL SAGE OA publishing agreement introduction (video)
  • IReL Author OA Publishing workflow (Powerpoint)
  • Author workflow for OA agreements (video)

Further information

• details on SAGE’s website
• SAGE guide to the agreement
• listing on ESAC Registry of Transformative Agreements
• press release