Irish higher education institutions and Elsevier sign a pilot transformative agreement to support open access for research in Ireland

A consortium of publicly-funded Irish higher education institutions and Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specializing in science and health, have agreed to the country’s first open access program with a major scientific publisher towards the goal of full open access to Irish research publications.

The three-year agreement means Irish researchers from 19 institutions will have access to the entire Freedom Collection of 16 million publications from 2,500 journals published by Elsevier and its society partners on ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. The agreement also facilitates a transition to open access and enables Irish researchers to publish more than 70 percent of their research without having to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC).