Acquisitions: IReL and Open Access Agreements

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

What is available? IReL delivers quality peer-reviewed online research publications - journals, databases, eBook collections. All of the IReL resources are available through UCC Library's Databases pages.

You can find a full listing of IReL resources here.

UCC has several agreements with publishers through IReL that allow UCC corresponding authors to have articles made open access immediately with the publisher without payment of a further Article Processing Charge (APC).

The tabs in the publishers box below detail the current agreements in place and information on eligibility and conditions, and an IReL spreadsheet listing all the journals involved is available:

• Most of the agreements have a limit on the number of APCs that can be granted, so acceptance cannot be guaranteed.
• Researchers are advised to include Open Access charges wherever possible in any funding applications.  Outside of these agreements, UCC has no central fund to support paying individual Article Processing Charges (APCs). 
• The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student at UCC at the time an article is accepted for publication.
• UCC affiliation should be used on the paper.

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

Please click on the publisher link below to find full details of the IReL deal.

Please note that each deal is slightly different (quotas, dates, types of journals, types of articles, and so on), and you should check the details of the deal you wish to use in advance. 

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

• openaccess@ucc.ie

For more general queries about Open Access:

• Contact: cora@ucc.ie 
• See: Open Access @ UCC guide