Springer Nature: Springer Compact

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

  • Access to current content from all Springer, Palgrave, Adis subscription journals, as well as Academic Journals on nature.com. 
  • The ability to make their articles open access without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). This applies to articles accepted for publication in eligible Springer Nature journals. Further details below.

Agreement period: 1 April 2021 – 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

Participating 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
  • Mary Immaculate College (from 1 Jan 2023)
  • Atlantic Technological University (from Jan 2024)
  • Dundalk Institute of Technology (from Jan 2024)
  • Institute of Art, Design + Technology (from Jan 2024)
  • Mary Immaculate College (from Jan 2024)
  • Munster Technological University (from Jan 2024)
  • South East Technological University (from Jan 2024)
  • Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (from Jan 2024)

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. 

Eligible journals

Eligible article types: Brief/communication, Article, Case report, Perspective, Doctoral dissertation, Letter, News and Views, Original research, Review article. 

OA quota: fixed OA fund each year *projected* to cover all eligible articles:

  • Apr-Dec 2021: 270 articles. 
  • 2022: 369 articles 
  • 2023: 378 articles
  • 2024: 427 articles. The limited OA quota is now fully used. IReL-funded OA will not be offered to authors for the rest of 2024.

OA publishing license: CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0. “Generally, Eligible Authors will retain copyright in the Eligible Article, subject to certain exceptions (including, but not limited to, articles published in Non-Standard Journals, or if requested by the author, and/or otherwise required by law or third parties (such as funding bodies)).”   

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