IReL and Open Access: Emerald

Current Agreement period: 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026

• Eligible authors: at the time an article is accepted for publication, the corresponding author must be a staff member or student with a participating institution. 
• Journals included for OA publishing: all Emerald Premier journals. See either:
  • Emerald Premier journal list, or
  • list of all the journals IReL affiliated authors can publish OA with under our open access publisher agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.

More information here: https://irel.ie/open-access/emerald/ 

• For your article submission to be included under the agreement, you must be the corresponding author and affiliated to 'University College Cork'.  In the article submission process you must correctly identify your institution as 'University College Cork'. You must use your UCC email address, and not addresses from other domains.

• Author information: Emerald prepaid APC Voucher Workflow guide

• Further details for IReL institutions 

For queries about Open Access agreements and IReL resources, please contact:

• LibraryAPCs@ucc.ie

For more general queries about Open Access:

• Contact: cora@ucc.ie 
• See: Open Access @ UCC guide

• Details on IReL's website
• Details on Emerald's website (see section Ireland – IReL Consortium). See also here.
• Details on ESAC registry of transformative agreements (coming soon)