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Open Access Publishing Agreements: Emerald

Discover the current open access publishing agreements in place, allowing options for publishing research open access at no cost to the author.

Agreement details

The IReL-Emerald agreement allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions to publish original research open access upon publication at no extra cost.

Agreement period: 1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2023.

OA quota per year: unlimited.

What journals are included?

All Emerald journals. See either Emerald journal list, or the list of all the journals IReL affiliated authors can publish OA with.

Instructions for authors

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: all article types.

OA publishing license: CC-BY only. 

Creative Commons license