ATU's transformative agreements are brought to us by IReL. IReL is a consortium of Irish research libraries, providing access to licensed e-resources, OA publishing agreements, and open science infrastructure. The library supports OA through a variety of channels including our Institutional Repository. To accelerate the transition towards full open access, the library, through IReL negotiate OA with a growing number of scholarly publishers.
Transformative agreements, also referred to as “read and publish” agreements, are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model inherent in scholarly publishing towards an open access model. These agreements represent a further move away from a subscription-only model to one which includes both subscription payments (the “read” part) and article processing charges (the “publish” part).
The following publishers offer authors affiliated with ATU the benefits of publishing open access, covering APCs or publication fee. APCs can range in value between €2000 and €5000. Part of the workflow of these agreements is that the library needs to approve requests from ATU authors (current staff and students).
The Cambridge University Press Open Access Publishing AgreementThis agreement gives current staff and students at ATU the ability to make articles accepted for publication in eligible CUP journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).
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The Elsevier (Science Direct) Open Access Publishing AgreementThis agreement gives current staff and students at ATU the ability to make articles accepted for publication in eligible Elsevier (Science Direct) journals open access, without incurring an article processing charge (APC).
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The Oxford University Press Open Access Publishing AgreementThis agreement gives current staff and students at ATU the ability to make articles accepted for publication in all OUP hybrid journals (subscription journals which include open access content) open access, without incurring an article processing charge (APC).
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The PLOS Open Access Publishing Agreement This agreement gives current staff and students at ATU the ability to make articles accepted for publication in eligible PLOS journals open access, without author-facing article processing charges (APCs).
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The Sage Open Access Publishing Agreement This agreement gives current staff and students the ability to make articles accepted for publication in eligible Sage journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Further details below.
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The Springer Nature Open Access Publishing AgreementThis agreement gives current staff and students the ability to make their articles open access without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). This applies to articles accepted for publication in eligible Springer Nature journals.
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The Taylor & Francis Open Access Publishing AgreementThis agreement gives current staff and students the ability to make their articles accepted for publication in eligible T&F journals open access without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).
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The Wiley Open Access Publishing AgreementThis agreement gives current staff and students the ability to make their articles accepted for publication in Wiley journals open access without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).
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