| 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 |
You don't have an APC until you have it!
First come, first served and cannot be reserved.
If there's a chance of Major Revisions... don't do it!
The big deals will run out guaranteed
Best time to submit is January, second best is February...
Can you afford an invoice?
TU Dublin does not support the payment of APCs in any other way, although they can be funded by research budgets.
What happens when you find your open access PhD thesis for sale on Amazon?
The 3rd party shop front and all references to the published works were removed by Amazon.
It was good to see that the CC license was robust enough to deal with the threat
Open Access exposed plagiarism
Publishing under an open license was shown to be effective
Shows open licenses can be abused and that there may be reluctance as a result
Awareness is the answer!
The pay to publish model of OA publishing has given rise to predatory publishers which are a significant threat to the OA mission and the credibility of science.
PPs market OA journals that exist for the sole purpose of profit, not the dissemination of high-quality research findings and furtherance of knowledge.
PPs exploit the open access (OA) publishing model to make money from author fees by accepting most or all papers submitted to them
Record 10,000 papers retracted in 2023 – 8,000 by Hindawi.
Read: How a widely used ranking system ended up with three fake journals in its top 10 philosophy list
Please click on the publisher link below to find full details of the IReL deal. Please note that each deal is slightly different (quotas, dates, types of journals, types of articles, and so on), and you should check the details of the deal you wish to use in advance.
The full list of titles covered is available here. If a journal title is not on this list, it is not covered. This list can and does change when deals are renegotiated: just because a journal was previously covered, does not mean that it still is.
Please bear in mind that to avail of these deals:
You must be the corresponding author.
You must use your TU Dublin affiliation and email address.
You must be a current staff member or student of TU Dublin at time of acceptance.
Please be advised that:
These deals run on the calendar year - i.e. January to December. Submissions and accepted articles from previous years will not be covered by new year deals (e.g. article accepted in October while publisher quotas are exhausted will not be covered by following year quotas).
This is not the only way to make your work Open Access. Lodging your authors accepted manuscript into Arrow, our institutional repository, satisfies policy and Green Open Access.
Not all journals are equal in Open Access - some titles are Hybrid journals which you may not be allowed to publish in (e.g., SFI does not allow it) You can check their status on the spreadsheet, or by searching the journal policies on SherpaRomeo.
You can check the Directory of Open Access Journals for Diamond Open Access journals (no cost to author or reader). This is a very legitimate directory - they have very high standards to be listed.
TU Dublin does not support the payment of APCs in any other way, although they can be funded by research budgets.
Please click on the publisher link below to find full details of the IReL deal. Please note that each deal is slightly different (quotas, dates, types of journals, types of articles, and so on), and you should check the details of the deal you wish to use in advance.
AIP Publishing (American Institute of Physics)
American Psychological Association (APA)
Authors are reminded that Copyright of their works is a valuable property right that you should be reluctant to sign away.
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).
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
