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 here.
When the fund is fully spent each year, the author OA workflow will be suspended so authors will not be informed of the agreement on acceptance.
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 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.
See the full list of all eligible journals under current IReL Agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals
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