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IReL and Open Access: Taylor & Francis

IReL, the Irish Research eLibrary is a nationally funded electronic research library. IReL also seeks to secure open access agreements with publishers.

Overview

 

The IReL-Taylor & Francis agreement (March 2024-2026) allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions to publish original research open access in all T&F Open Select journals (hybrid journals), at no extra cost (with fees covered by the agreement) providing the IRel APC quota availability of at time of acceptance.

OA quota per year: the OA publishing fund with this agreement is limited. The Taylor & Francis 2024 allocation is now fully used (2nd Sept. 2024). IReL-funded OA will not be offered to authors for the rest of 2024. For more information see Taylor and Francis – IReL

Instructions for Authors

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. See:

Note. There is a limited annual publishing fundThis allocation ran out in September 2nd 2024. IReL-funded OA will not be offered to authors for the rest of 2024. 

When the quota allowance has been reached, Authors of papers in hybrid journals can continue to make your work open access by depositing the accepted manuscript version in CORA UCC's open access repository. Contact the CORA team at cora@ucc.ie

What journals are included?

  • Over 2000 T&F Open Select journals Hybrid journals (see T&F list) 

See the full list of all eligible journals under current IReL Agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals

Who to contact in UCC

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

For more general queries about Open Access:

Further information

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