This gives continued read-access to the Elsevier’s Freedom Collection of journals and allows corresponding authors from member institutions to publish articles as open access in over two thousand Elsevier journals without publication charges. The agreement will allow an estimated 71% of articles by eligible authors in the relevant Elsevier journals to be open access immediately on publication for each year of the agreement.
IReL is the Irish Research eLibrary, a nationally funded online research library providing access to leading Science Technology and Medicine (STM) and Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) resources to participating institutions. IRel also negotiates transformative agreements with publishers.which typically allow corresponding authors from eligible institutions to publish their articles open access immediately on publication.A list of the agreements negotiated to date is here. Of particular significance are the recent agreements negotiated with Sciencedirect and ACM.
Under the new agreement, which runs for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2020, participating universities will receive unlimited and unrestricted access to all articles in the ACM Digital Library during the term and all publications from corresponding authors from these institutions published during the term in ACM journals, conference proceedings and magazines will be made Open Access at the time of publication at no cost to the authors. Additionally, ACM will make deposits into institutional repositories for all co-authors from these universities. The new agreement also expands the range of rights authors retain when publishing with ACM.
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