Please be advised that the 2025 allocation of IReL funded APCs with Taylor & Francis is anticipated to be fully used in late July 2025. (14.04.25)
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. For more information see Taylor and Francis – IReL
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 fund.
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
See the full list of all eligible journals under current IReL Agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals
For queries about Open Access agreements and IReL resources, please contact:
For more general queries about Open Access:
