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
- Atlantic Technological University
- Dublin City University
- 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:
- 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 was available for articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s fully-OA journals.
- 2023:
- 670 hybrid journal articles.
- A separate fund was available for articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s fully-OA journals.
- 2024:
- 680 hybrid journal articles. We project that this allocation will last for the full year (ie, it will cover all eligible articles where the author chooses OA).
- A separate fund is available for articles accepted for publication in Wiley’s fully-OA journals. This fund will be available to authors submitting manuscripts from 1 Jan 2024. Funding is allocated to articles based on the submission date, i.e. for an article to be eligible, it must be submitted on a date between January and December 2024. Fees for any rejected/withdrawn manuscripts will be returned to the fund. As of 16 Apr 2024, we project that this limited fund will run out around Jun 2024. After this date, authors will not be offered IReL-funded OA on submission.
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:
- for hybrid journals: 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.
- for fully open-access journals: the corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time of article submission. 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 copyright.
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