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 2021 – 31 Dec 2024
Participating members
- Dublin City University
- Maynooth University
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Teagasc
- Technological University Dublin
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Cork
- University College Dublin
- University of Galway
- University of Limerick
- Atlantic Technological University (from Jan 2023)
- Dundalk Institute of Technology (from Jan 2023)
- Institute of Art, Design + Technology (from Jan 2023)
- Mary Immaculate College (from Jan 2023)
- Munster Technological University (from Jan 2023)
- South East Technological University (from Jan 2023)
- Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (from Jan 2023)
Publisher page with author instructions
OA quota per year: a limited annual publishing fund *projected* to cover all articles from members’ eligible authors:
- 2021: ~535 articles.
- 2022:
- up to 660 articles in Wiley’s hybrid journals, which is equivalent to over 100% of the projected hybrid OA output in prior years.
- A separate fund is available for articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s fully-OA journals. UPDATE 29 July 2022: the fund for fully-OA journals is now used up and closed. Articles submitted for the rest of 2022 will not be offered IReL-funded OA. Articles that have already been approved for OA funding will not be effected.
- 2023:
- 670 hybrid journal articles
- A separate fund is available for articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s fully-OA journals. This is projected to cover over 100% of eligible authors’ output.
- 2024:
- 680 hybrid journal articles
- A separate fund is available for articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s fully-OA journals. This is projected to cover over 100% of eligible authors’ output.
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 the article is accepted for publication. Requests for OA are subject to approval by participating institutions.
Eligible article types: “primary research and review articles, including but not limited to articles classified by Wiley as Case Study, Commentary, Data Article, Education, Lecture, Method and Protocol, Perspective, Practice and Policy, Rapid Publication, Research Article, Review Article, Short Communication, and Technical Note”.
OA publishing license: eligible authors will be able to select the at least one of the following: CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND. Authors retain all proprietary rights in addition to copyright.
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