ATU's transformative agreements are brought to us by IReL. IReL is a consortium of Irish research libraries, providing access to licensed e-resources, OA publishing agreements, and open science infrastructure. The library supports OA through a variety of channels including our Institutional Repository. To accelerate the transition towards full open access, the library, through IReL negotiate OA with a growing number of scholarly publishers.
IReL is a consortium of Irish research libraries. Established in 2004, it provides participating member institutions with access to a wide range of licensed eResources, open access publishing agreements with over twenty publishers, and open science infrastructure.
Transformative agreements, also referred to as “read and publish” agreements, are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model inherent in scholarly publishing towards an open access model. These agreements represent a further move away from a subscription-only model to one which includes both subscription payments (the “read” part) and article processing charges (the “publish” part).
The following publishers offer authors affiliated with ATU the benefits of publishing open access, covering APCs or publication fee. APCs can range in value between €2000 and €5000. Part of the workflow of these agreements is that the library needs to approve requests from ATU authors (current staff and students).
Please Note: Unlike the Elsevier Science Direct agreement no set allocation of APCs has been assigned for ATU authors. Staff and students must compete nationally for the APCs allocated via the IReL agreement.
The IReL-Cambridge University Press agreement (2023-2025) allows current staff and students the ability to make their articles accepted for publication in eligible CUP journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Journals included for OA publishing are all CUP hybrid and fully open access journals.
See: IReL-Cambridge University Press (and publisher website for more).
The IReL-Oxford University Press agreement (Jan 2024 – Dec 2026) allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions (including ATU students and staff) to publish original research and review articles OA upon publication at no extra cost, in OUP hybrid journals only.
See: IReL-Oxford University Press (and publisher website for more).
The IReL-SAGE agreement allows corresponding authors (where they are a current staff member or student with participating member institutions at the time the article is accepted for publication) to publish articles open access in SAGE Choice hybrid journals at no extra cost with a 20% APC discount in most SAGE Gold journals (fully OA journals). For Gold journals the remainder must be covered by an alternative funding source.
See: IReL-Sage (and publisher website for more).
The IReL-Springer agreement (Jan. - Dec. 2024) allows corresponding authors (where they are a current staff member or student with participating member institutions, including ATU at the time the article is accepted for publication) to publish articles OA in one of their eligible journals at no extra cost.
See: IReL-Springer Nature (and publisher website for more).
The IReL-Taylor & Francis agreement (2024-2026) allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions, including ATU, to publish original research OA in all T&F Open Select journals (hybrid journals), at no extra cost (with fees covered by the agreement) providing there is IReL APC quota availability at the time of acceptance.
See: IReL-Taylor & Francis (and publisher website for more).
The IReL-Wiley agreement (2023 -2024) allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions (including ATU students and staff) to publish in eligible Wiley journals, without the author paying an APC. Journals included for OA publishing are all Wiley hybrid (partially open access) and Gold (fully open access) journals.
See: IReL-Wiley (and publisher website for more).