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
- with a 20% article processing charge (APC) discount in most SAGE Gold journals (fully open access journals)
- 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
- details on ESAC Registry of Transformative Agreements (coming soon)
- press release