The IReL-SAGE Read and Publish agreement 2021- 2023 allows corresponding authors (where they are a current staff member or student with participating member institutions at the time the article is accepted for publication) to publish articles open access:
The agreement also includes read access to the 2021 SAGE Premier Package (over 1,000 titles).
For your article submission to be included under the agreement, you must be the corresponding author and affiliated to 'University College Cork'. During 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.
See SAGE’s guide to IReL & SAGE Premier Read and Publish Open Access Agreement which includes:
For articles accepted for publication from Fri 19 Mar 2021: SAGE will invite eligible corresponding authors to make their articles open access on acceptance.
For articles accepted between 1 Jan 2021 and 19 Mar 2021: eligible corresponding authors will be contacted by SAGE in late April 2021, inviting them to make the article open access retrospectively.
The agreement covers corresponding authors publishing an article in 900+ subscription journals which offer hybrid open access publishing (SAGE Choice). See list of journals included.
There are a number of exceptions.
Corresponding authors publishing an article in a gold open access journal are entitled to a 20% discount on the prevailing article processing charge (APC) for that journal. Click here for the participating Gold journal title list.
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