TUS is a member of IRel, a consortium of Irish Research Libraries. Established in 2004, it provides participating member institutions with access to a wide range of licensed e-resources, open access publishing agreements and open science infrastructure.
IRel secures open access agreements with publishers. Transformative Agreements typically allow corresponding authors from eligible institutions to publish their articles open access immediately on publication. These read and publish deals have evolved as a result of changes in the open access landscape and in particular Plan S. The agreements cover both the subscription to the journal (the read element) and the the open access publishing cost (the publish element).
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Oxford University Press - (hybrid journals and fully-OA journals)
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Read and Publish (APC's for all Hybrid Journals) APCs are capped at 159 articles for 2025. TUS shares the allocation of APCs with other members of the consortium. APCs are allocated on a first come first served basis to all members of the consortium. Likely to run out November / December. |
Link to Oxford University Press IReL Agreement Oxford University Press Open Access Account User Guide
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SAGE
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Read and Publish (APC's for Hybrid Journals and 20% discount on Gold Journals)
Unlimited APCs available for Hybrid Journals |
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Wiley - (hybrid journals and fully-OA journals)
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Read and Publish (APC's for Gold and Hybrid Journals)
Gold APCs - Capped at 196 journal articles Hybrid APCs - Capped at 582 journal articles Hybrid APCs likely to run out late 2025. |
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Cambridge University Press
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Read and Publish (APC's for Gold and Hybrid Journals)
Unlimited APCs available for Hybrid and Gold Journals |
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Taylor & Francis - (hybrid journals and fully-OA journals)
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Read and Publish (APC's for Hybrid Journals)
APCs are capped at 312 articles for 2025. TUS shares the allocation of APCs with other members of the consortium. APCs are allocated on a first come first served basis to all members of the consortium. APCs likely to run out July / August. |
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Springer Nature: Springer Compact
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Read and Publish (APC's for Hybrid Journals) APCs are capped 427 articles for 2025. TUS shares the allocation of APCs with other members of the consortium. APCs are allocated on a first come first served basis to all members of the consortium. 2025 allocation expected to run out in the 3rd quarter of the year. APCs likely to run out in October. |
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PLOS
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Publish Unlimited APC allocation for 2025. Journals eligible for open access publishing:
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Link to PLOS IReL agreement. |
A full list of Open Access Journals published by the above publishers facilitated by IReL can be found Here (please filter to the appropriate publisher to view available journals).
| Other APCs available to TUS staff and students (outside of IReL): | ||
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ScienceDirect
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APCs are capped. APCs are allocated on a first come first served basis. | |
A full list of Open Access Journals from the eligible publishers can be found Here (from this list you can filter by publisher).
Please note this list is subject to change during the agreement.
In order to be eligible, the corresponding author must be a current member of staff or a current student at the time the article is accepted for publication. It is essential that corresponding authors both identify their organisation as TUS and use their TUS email address.
What is an APC?
An Article Processing Charge (APC) is a one off payment to cover the costs of publishing in fully Open Access or Hybrid Open Access Journals. TUS membership of IRel provides access to APCs for a number of journals.
How are the IReL APCs allocated?
For a number of the agreements there is a limited annual quota of article processing charges (APCs) available to the consortium. TUS shares the allocation of APCs with other members of the consortium. APCs are allocated on a first come first served basis to all members of the consortium.
What happens if the APC quota for an agreement has been reached for the year?
For agreements with a limited annual quota, once the maximum article allowance is reached, authors will not be offered the option to publish open access at no cost, as the eligibility recognition will be switched off for articles accepted for publication after that point. For further details please see the above linked individual agreement pages. At this point if the author still wants to publish Open Access with that journal the author will need to find another way to pay for the APC (such as from a funding allocation). Or if it is close to the end of the calender year the author could try waiting until the following year to publish when the APC quota has been refreshed. However, please note publishing the next year is never guaranteed and there is no way to reserve an APC for the following year.
Yes! Some funding bodies/programmes (e.g. Horizon 2020) may still require you to archive your publication in a repository even if it is already published open access, so check your grant agreement to ensure you comply with any such requirements.
Some other benefits to depositing your work in TUS Research Repository include
Please check out our Research Repository Library Guide.
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