Agreement period:   1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026

Agreement details 

This agreement allows current staff and students from Maynooth University the ability to make their articles accepted for publication in all BMJ Hybrid journals, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC).

Access to all BMJ hybrid journals and the BMJ Online

Eligible journals 

• All 34 BMJ Hybrid journals 
• see list of all the eligible journals in all IReL TAs: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals

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

 OA quota per year

Unlimited Open Access

OA publishing license:

• Eligible articles will be published under a CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0. Some journals require a CC-BY-NC license (unless a CC-BY license is mandated by funders). Journals requiring a CC-BY-BY license can be found here.
• Where research on which an Open Access Article is based is funded by a funder that mandates the use of CC-BY licence, or BMJ has expressly agreed that the CC-BY licence shall apply, the that Eligible Author’s published manuscript may be re-used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0) or any subsequent versions of this licence as determined by BMJ.

Further information here.

Further information

• BMJ Author Guide
• How to publish your artcile OA – video
• FAQs – BMJ Publish and Read agreements
• BMJ IReL Publish & Read License 2024-2026 
• Agreement details on ESAC registry of transformative agreements