Transformative Agreements

What is an Article Processing Charge (APC)?

• The APC is one-off fee which is charged to authors involved in making a work available as open access (OA), in either a full OA journal or in a hybrid journal, which means your research article will be available to anyone with online access.
• The APC is paid by either the author, the funder, or the institution. ATU Library does not provide funds for APCs.
• The APC is payable when your manuscript is accepted, but before it is published.
• The APC fees vary by journal, the average cost of an APC is approx. €2,000- €2,500 per paper but can be significantly higher.
• Check the Directory of OA Journals, DOAJ, for non-APC journals, which lists over 13,000 OA journals without APCs. 
• There are a number of free APCs given to each Irish institution through IReL, and these are given on a first come first serve basis (limited annual quota). 

Agreements available to ATU:

• Cambridge University Press (see publisher website for more).
• Oxford University Press hybrid only (see publisher website for more).
• PLOS (see publisher website for more).
• Sage (see publisher website for more).
• ScienceDirect (see publisher website for more).
• Springer Nature (see publisher website for more). 
• Taylor & Francis (see publisher website for more).
• Wiley (see publisher website for more).

How can ATU avail of the Agreement?

To be eligible, the corresponding author must be a registered, current researcher, member of staff or student at the time the article is accepted for publication. It is essential that corresponding authors Identify their organisation as ATU and use they’re @atu.ie email address.

For more information or if you need assistance please contact Fiona.Fox@atu.ie.