Introduction: this agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
1. Access to current content from all of Wiley’s subscription journals.
2. 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. As of August, we project that this quota may run out in December.
- 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
- 2021-2024 agreement