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Open Access Publishing Agreements

Sage Publishing

This guide provides details of open access agreements with publishers facilitated by IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) which typically allow corresponding authors from eligible institutions to publish their articles open access immediately on publication.

Sage Publishing

Sage Publishing

Agreement period
1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2023
 

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

Access to current content from the SAGE Premier journal collection.

Eligible authors:
The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of a participating institution 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.
 

Eligible journals:
See the list of all eligible journals in all IReL open access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.

OA quota per year:

  • unlimited OA publishing in SAGE Choice hybrid journals (subscription journals where some of the articles are open access) at no extra cost. See the Hybrid @ (£0) list here
  • unlimited OA publishing with a 20% article processing charge (APC) discount in most SAGE Gold journals (fully open access journals). See the Gold OA (20% discount) list here

Eligible article types:

“[including] but not limited to: Original Research Papers, Review Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports”

“Articles published as part of commercially sponsored supplements, errata, book reviews, editorials, published abstracts, call for papers, news items or similar are excluded from this service.”

OA publishing license: CC-BY or CC-BY-NC


Further Information
•     Press release from Sage
•    SAGE