The IReL-Taylor & Francis agreement (March 2021-2023) allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions to publish articles open access upon publication at no extra cost.
Authorised users in participating institutions will have read access to all Taylor & Francis journals from its Social Sciences & Humanities and Medical collections.
For your article submission to be included under the agreement, you must be the corresponding author and affiliated to 'University College Cork' at the time the article is accepted for publication. 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.
For articles accepted from Wednesday, March 31 2021: eligible corresponding authors will be invited to make their articles open access on acceptance. Pending approval by a participating institution, the article will be published OA. If an author’s request is approved, T&F will notify the author by email. If the request is not approved, the author can then choose to either a) fund the APC (article processing charge) through a different source, or b) publish the article subscription, which does not require the payment of an APC. See:
Note. There is a limited annual publishing fund. Once the maximum article allowance for 2023 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 for OA publishing: Over 1,900 T&F Open Select journals (hybrid journals) and Fully Open Access (Gold) journals
Excluded journals, not available for OA publishing: see the list of excluded titles.
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