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New IReL open access agreement with the American Institute of Physics
IReL sign Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists
IReL sign transformative open access agreement with ACM
IReL and COVID-19
IReL purchases Cambridge journals digital archive
IReL supports Open Access with Annual Reviews’ “Subscribe to Open” initiative
IReL will participate in Annual Reviews’ Subscribe to Open pilot initiative, which will flip five of its subscription titles to Open Access (OA) from January 2020. The five journals are: Annual Review of Cancer Biology Annual Review of Environment and Resources Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science Annual Review of Political Science Annual Review […]
Read More →TU Dublin joining IReL
IReL are delighted to announce that from 2020, all of TU Dublin will join publisher agreements as they are renewed, making IReL resources available to all TU Dublin staff and students. In 2019, TU Dublin City Campus (the former DIT) joined IReL. From 2020, TU Dublin’s Blanchardstown and Tallaght campuses (the former Institute Of Technology […]
Read More →IReL principles for Open Access publisher agreements from 2020
Following the recent conclusion of the Strategic Review of the Irish Research e-Library (IReL), the IReL Steering Group have agreed the following principles for negotiating agreements with publishers from 2020, based on the LIBER principles. IReL’s requirements include that: agreements should cover both the read costs (reader access to subscription content) and publication costs (for […]
Read More →IReL review: findings and recommendations published
IReL “is considered by all stakeholders to be an important and effective part of the infrastructure of higher education and research” in Ireland. The review of IReL has now concluded and its report is now available. The review began in 2018, the request of the Governance Committee of the Irish University Libraries Collaboration Centre (IULCC), […]
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