Open Access Publishing Agreements: News and Quota Updates

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.

IReL is currently in negotiations with the following publishers for new agreements from 2025:

• Electrochemical Society
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Optica Publishing Group
• PLOS (we are currently unable to confirm if there will be a new publishing agreement with PLOS from 2025)
• Rockefeller University Press
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• Wiley

This page will be updated once negotiations are finalised and new agreements are in place.

We anticipate that not all of the agreements will be signed by close of business before the Christmas season.  Our expectations in the new year are that:

• The terms of authors’ eligibility for OA will not change from our preceding agreements with the publishers.
• There may be temporary interruptions in publishers offering IReL-funded OA to accepted authors. If this arises, we expect publishers to retrospectively offer OA to eligible articles after the agreements are signed.

   

NOTE: the new agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA) from January 2025 will not offer IReL-funded OA on acceptance. However, the agreement does allow eligible authors who wish to publish OA a 30% discount on APCs.