Eligible authors:
A full list of all the journals included in the IReL agreements can be found here.
If a journal does not appear on the list, it is not covered, and you will have to find alternative means to pay the fee.
These agreements can and do change, so ensure that the journal you are submitting to is on the list before you submit.
| Green Route | Almost always available – required by policy - upload to Arrow@TUDublin |
| Gold Route | IReL APCs or funded from budgets |
| Hybrid Route | IReL APCs (Open) or subscription (and Green Route via Arrow) |
| Diamond Route | Free for authors and readers – check DOAJ |
If you have any questions in relation to any of the open access publishing agreements detailed on this guide, please contact publisherapprovals@tudublin.ie.
For information about open access more generally, please contact Aisling Coyne, Open Scholarship Librarian, TU Dublin, Park House (aisling.coyne@tudublin.ie).
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Click this link to see the deals which are being renegotiated. Deals still outstanding: ASME.
Please note the APA deal has not been renewed. Please note changes to deals below.
Publisher |
Gold/Hybrid[Notes on titles] |
Article Types |
CC license Types |
Agreement Period |
Eligibility Period |
Quota Y/N |
Expected Run Out |
| ACM Open | Mix - check journal | Research Articles, Review Articles, Conference Papers, Proceedings. | CC-BY | 1 Jan 2023 — 31 Dec 2025 | 1 Jan 2025 — 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| AIP Publishing (American Institute of Physics) | Hybrid | Primary research article, review article, perspective article, tutorial article. | CC-BY | 1 Jan 2023 – 31 Dec 2025 | 1 Jan 2025-31 Dec 2025 | Y - 2025 - 31 articles | IReL project that this allocation will meet demand for all eligible articles during the agreement’s term. |
| American Chemical Society | Mix - check journal | Any peer-reviewed articles | CC-BY | 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2025 | 1 Jan 2025-31 Dec 2025 | Y - 2025 – 111 articles | Projected to exhaust by June/July |
| Hybrid - particular titles only. No Gold included. | Any peer-reviewed articles. | CC-BY ONLY | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2027 | 1 Jan 2025-31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A | |
| Annual Reviews | Gold/Diamond | IReL is participating in Annual Reviews’ Subscribe to Open initiative which will make all articles published OA in the titles which have been converted to S2O, for authors from participating institutions. | CC options | 1 Jan 2022 — 31 Dec 2024 | 1 Jan 2025 — 31 Dec 2027 | N/A | N/A |
| BMJ |
Hybrid
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Original research articles (original articles reporting on primary research) | Publishing in 21 journals: CC-BY licence and 13 journals require CC-BY-NC licence for OA publication unless CC-BY is specifically mandated by funders | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| Cambridge University Press | All CUP hybrid and Gold titles | Research, case report, brief report, review, or rapid communications format Article. | Choice of CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-SA, and CC-BY-NC-ND license. May vary per journal. | 1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2025 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| Electrochemical Society | Gold | All article types. | CC BY or CC-BY–NC–ND | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 | N - Unlimited |
IReL is currently in negotiations with the publisher for a new agreement from 2025. They will update this page when a new agreement is finalised, but we can not provide details in advance of this |
| Elsevier (Cell Press) |
Noting that this agreement covers hybrid Cell Press journals only. A separate agreement covers OA for the Cell Press Gold (fully open access) journals. |
|
Choice of CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | Y - 22 articles per year | IIReL project that this allocation will meet demand for all eligible articles during the agreement’s term. |
| Elsevier (ScienceDirect) | Gold and Hybrid | All article types. | CC BY or CC-BY-NC-ND | 1 Jan 2023 – 31 Dec 2025 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | Y - 2025 balance unavailable at this time. | |
| Emerald | Hybrid - Emerald Premier journal list | All peer-reviewed articles | CC-BY only | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| IEEE | Gold and Hybrid.
Selected subscription-only publications (mainly magazines) are excluded. See the IEEE journal title list Please note that some IEEE journals charge additional fees (e.g. overlength and color page charges), which are note covered by the IReL agreement. See individual journal author instructions for specific details. |
Original Research articles | Choice of a CC-BY or CC-BY NC-ND license. | 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026 | 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025 | Y - 2025: 220 articles/Ireland | IReL project that this allocation will meet demand for all eligible articles during the agreement’s term. |
| Institute of Physics |
Paper, special issue paper, review and/or letter (intended to cover all original research and review type content) *For the journal Reports on Progress in Physics, only original research papers can qualify as Eligible Articles |
CC-BY |
1 January 2025 – 31 December 2027 |
1 January 2025 – 31 December 2027 | N - Unlimited |
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| Microbiology Society |
|
Original research articles | CC-BY | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025– 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| Optica Publishing Group |
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CC-BY | January 2025 – December 2027 | January 2025 – December 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| Oxford University Press | All Hybrid titles | All article types | Journals offer one or more of the following, depending on the journal: CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC 4.0, and CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | Y - 2025: 159 articles/Ireland | Projected to exhaust by November/December |
| PLOS |
|
All article types. | CC-BY | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited |
N/A |
| Rockefeller University Press |
|
Article, Brief Definitive Report, Communication, Hypothesis, Methods and Approaches, Report, Technical Advances and Resources, and Tools. | CC-BY | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2027 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| Royal Irish Academy |
RIA’s six journals. |
Rapid-communication; reply; research-article; translation | CC-BY by default, other Creative Commons options offered | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| Royal Society |
|
All article types are included in this agreement, except Letters to the Editor, Corrections, Retractions. | CC-BY only | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| Royal Society of Chemistry |
All RSC journals (both hybrid and Gold) |
All research articles and review papers. | Either a CC-BY 3.0 or a CC BY-NC 3.0 license | 1 Jan 2025 to 31 Dec 2028 | 1 Jan 2025 to 31 Dec 2028 | N - Unlimited |
N/A |
| Sage | Hybrid, and 20% discounts for Gold |
Included: brief report, case report, collection, research article and review article Excluded: “Articles published as part of commercially sponsored supplements, errata, book reviews, editorials, published abstracts, call for papers, news items or similar are excluded from this service.” |
CC-BY or CC-BY-NC | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 |
Unlimited OA publishing in Sage Choice hybrid journals (subscription journals where some of the articles are open access) at no extra cost. A 20% discount on article processing charges (APCs) in most Sage Gold journals (fully open access journals). See the list of Gold journals eligible for the discount. |
N/A |
| SCOAP3 | Gold and Hybrid | N/A | N/A | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2027 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2027 | N/A |
Extended for 2 more years |
| Springer Nature: Springer Compact | Hybrid - see agreement page on springer.com | Brief/communication, Article, Case report, Perspective, Doctoral dissertation, Letter, News and Views, Original research, Review article. | CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2027 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | Y - 2025: 427 articles/Ireland | IReL project that this allocation will exhaust by October |
| Taylor and Francis |
All T&F Open Select journals (hybrid journals) Please note: Text in T&F’s author workflows may give the impression that authors will be billed for the APC if they choose OA and are rejected for IReL APC funding. This will not happen: if rejected, authors will be offered a choice (paying the APC from their own funds, or publishing the article on a subscription access basis at no cost). |
Article, Review, Research Article, Review Article, Report, Short Communication, Case Report, Note, Original Article, Guest Editorial. | Choose between a CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND licence | 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | Y - 2024: capped at 312 articles/Ireland | IReL project that this allocation will exhaust by July/August. |
| The Company of Biologists |
|
Original research articles | CC-BY only | 1 Jan 2023 — 31 Dec 2025 | 1 Jan 2025 — 31 Dec 2025 | N - Unlimited | N/A |
| Wiley |
Gold and Hybrid: All Wiley hybrid (partially open access) and Gold (fully open access) journals. A small number of Wiley subscription-only journals are excluded. |
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 | CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, CC-BY-NC-ND. | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2028 | 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 | Y - 2025: 582 hybrid journal articles; 196 Gold journal articles/Ireland |
IReL project that the HYBRID allocation will not meet demand for all eligible articles during the agreement’s term. |
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