The IReL-OPG agreement (January 2022 – December 2024) gives current staff and students at participating institutions:
OA quota per year: the OA publishing fund with this agreement is limited. As of July, we project that this allocation will run out in October 2024. Once this occurs, IReL-funded OA will not be offered to authors for the rest of 2024. For more information see Optica Publishing Group – IReL
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:
As of early June 2024, we project that this limited fund will run out in October 2024.
The following journals are eligible for OA publishing
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: