The IReL-Oxford University Press agreement (1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026) allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions (including UCC) to publish original research and review articles open access upon publication at no extra cost. It also provides read access to OUP's journals from arts, social science, scientific, technical, medical, professional and humanities disciplines, plus reference resources: Oxford Art Online, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference Online.
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. At the time the article is accepted for publication, the corresponding author must be a current staff member or student with a participating institution.
Note. There is a limited annual publishing fund, which mainly covers APCs in OUP's hybrid journals, rather than fully OA journals. Once the maximum article allowance for 2024 is reached authors will not be offered the option to publish open access at no cost, as the eligibility recognition will be switched off at that point.
Eligible journals: OUP hybrid journals (subscription journals which include open access content). See OUP Publisher page
See the full list of all eligible journals under current IReL Agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals
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