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 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2027
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
- Atlantic Technological University
- Dundalk Institute of Technology
- Institute of Art, Design + Technology
- Mary Immaculate College
- Munster Technological University
- South East Technological University
- Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
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
- see agreement page on springer.com, or
- list of all journals included in IReL open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals
Eligible article types: Original Paper, Review Paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education
OA quota: fixed OA article allocation each year. We project that this allocation will not meet all demand, so will be offered to articles on acceptance on a first-come-first-served basis until the year’s allocation is used up.
- [note that the 2024 OA allocation for the old 2021-2024 agreement is used up, so IReL-funded OA will only be offered to articles accepted for publication from 1 Jan 2025]
- 2025: 427 articles
- 2026: 427 articles
- 2027: 427 articles
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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