Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
- Access to current content from all of Wiley’s subscription journals.
- The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in Wiley journals open access without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.
Agreement period: 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2028
Participating members
- Atlantic Technological University
- Dublin City University
- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- Dundalk Institute of Technology
- Institute of Art, Design + Technology
- Mary Immaculate College
- Maynooth University
- Munster Technological University
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- South East Technological University
- Teagasc
- Technological University Dublin
- Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- University College Dublin
- University of Galway
- University of Limerick
Publisher page with author instructions
OA quota per year: a limited annual publishing fund *projected* to cover all articles from members’ eligible authors:
- 2025: 582 hybrid journal articles; 196 Gold journal articles
- 2026: 594 hybrid journal articles; 200 Gold journal articles
- 2027: 606 hybrid journal articles; 204 Gold journal articles
- 2028: 618 hybrid journal articles; 208 Gold journal articles
Journals included for OA publishing:
- all Wiley hybrid (partially open access) and Gold (fully open access) journals. See this list of all journals (including Wiley’s) included in IReL open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.
- A small number of Wiley subscription-only journals are excluded.
Eligible authors:
- the corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time of editorial acceptance. Requests for OA are subject to approval by participating institutions.
Eligible article types: Case Study, Case Study Media, Commentary, Data Article, Education, Lecture, Method and Protocol, Perspective, Practice and Policy, Rapid Publication, Research Article, Review Article, Short Communication, Technical Note
OA publishing license: Eligible Authors will be able to select from the following Creative Commons licenses, as applicable for the particular journal: Attribution
International (CC BY), Attribution Non-Commercial International (CC BY-NC), Attribution No-Derivatives International (CC BY-ND), or Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives International (CC BY-NC-ND).
Further information
- 2025-2028 agreement
- Full-text of the agreement (coming soon)
- details on ESAC registry of transformative agreements (coming soon)
- 2021-2024 agreement