Open Access Publishing Agreements: Cambridge University Press

The IReL-IEEE agreement allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions to publish original research open access upon publication at no extra cost from 1 March 2021 – 31 December 2025.

Eligible journals:

• almost all CUP hybrid and fully open access journals. As detailed in the linked sheet, note that a small number of journals either do not offer OA or require authors to transfer copyright. 
• see our list of eligible journals in all IReL open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals

Eligible authors:

The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution at the time the article is accepted for publication. The corresponding author must ensure their correct affiliation details are known to the publisher at this time.

Eligible article types:

A research, case report, brief report, review or rapid communications format article.

OA publishing license:

choice of a CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-SA, and CC-BY-NC-ND license. May vary per journal.

OA quota by year:

unlimited

• Publisher page
• Agreement details
• Details on the IReL website