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Open Access Publishing Agreements: News and Quota Updates

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

Limited annual APC quota updates

OA Agreement Projected* APC quota expiry date
American Chemical Society (ACS) October 24, 2024.
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Expected to last until the end of the year.
Cell Press Expected to last until the end of the year.
Elsevier UPDATE: as of 14 October this quota has been exhausted for the remainder of 2024.
IEEE Expected to last until the end of the year.
Optica Publishing Group Expected to last until the end of the year.
Oxford University Press Expected to last until the end of the year.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) UPDATE: This limited quota is now fully used up. Eligible authors of articles accepted for publication will not be offered IReL-funded OA for the rest of 2024.
Springer This OA fund has been exhausted. The OA agreement is closed for the remainder of 2024.
Taylor and Francis This OA fund has been exhausted. The OA agreement is closed for the remainder of 2024.
Wiley - Gold journals This OA fund has been exhausted. The OA agreement is closed for the remainder of 2024.
Wiley - Hybrid journals Expected to last until the end of the year.

* Subject to change, depending on the rate of publishing.

News

The new agreement between IReL and Cell Press gives current staff and students:

  • Read access to current content from 14 selected Cell Press journals.
  • The ability to make articles accepted for publication in all hybrid Cell Press journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). See the list of eligible journals in all of IReL’s open access agreements.

Further details here.

Upcoming OA information sessions

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