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.

Updates

Recently renewed OA publishing agreements:

Wiley - the agreement has been renewed until the end of 2028.
Royal Society of Chemistry - the new deal includes Gold RSC journals for the first time, and an unlimited APC allocation.
Optica Publishing - the new deal now offers unlimited APC quota.

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

Electrochemical Society
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Rockefeller University Press

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

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.

Limited annual APC quota updates

OA Agreement	APC quotas expired in 2024*
Elsevier	14th October: this APC quota has been exhausted for the remainder of 2024.
Optica Publishing Group	17th December: this APC quota has been exhausted for the remainder of 2024.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)	17th October: this APC quota has been exhausted for the remainder of 2024.
Springer	6th September: this APC quota has been exhausted for the remainder of 2024.
Taylor and Francis	9th September: this APC quota has been exhausted for the remainder of 2024.
Wiley - Gold journals	Mid-August: this APC quota has been exhausted for the remainder of 2024.

* APC funding is not available for articles accepted between APC quota expiration date and the end of 2024.

Upcoming OA information sessions

Jenny Collery (Scholarly Communications Librarian) and Laura Zaliene (Collections & Metadata Librarian) will explore Open Access Publishing. We aim to empower UCD authors when choosing how to publish Open Access (OA). We will cover depositing research outputs in the Research Repository UCD (Green OA), free Open Access publishing (Diamond), and UCD Library's Open Access Publishing Agreements (Gold). We will also answer the following common questions from researchers:

How do I meet the Open Access requirements of my research funder?
What does Rights Retention mean?
What Creative Commons Licence should I use?
Is my selected journal covered by UCD Library's Open Access Publishing Agreement, and how can I ensure I am eligible to avail of these deals?
How do limited OA quota agreements work, and how can I find out when they are running out?

Please come along if you are a UCD researcher, author, of staff member who needs to know about Open Access Publishing. All other questions on this area welcome.

Via Zoom:
5th March, 14:30, online.

Book here.