Agreement period: 

1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025

Agreement details
The open access publishing agreement with PLOS allows current staff and students from Maynooth University make articles accepted for publication in eligible PLOS journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). 

Eligible journals:

• PLOS Digital Health

• PLOS ONE

• PLOS Computational Biology

• PLOS Pathogens

• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

• PLOS Genetics

Also see the list of eligible journals in all of IReL’s open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.

OA quota per year: unlimited

Eligible authors

• The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of Maynooth University at the time the article is accepted for publication. The corresponding author must ensure their correct affiliation details are known to the publisher at this time.

• Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by participating members. 

Eligible article types: all article types. 

OA publishing license: CC-BY

Further information:

https://plos.org/resources/for-institutions/flat-fee-agreements/