As part of the IREL agreement with Cambridge University Press, students and faculty at SETU can now submit articles for open access publishing without any processing fees. Eligible authors must be affiliated with SETU at the time of publication.
The allocation of APCs for 2025 is listed here or below, on screen. It is essential to verify the remaining APC quota with the library. 
The agreement covers almost all CUP hybrid and fully open access journals. A small number of journals may either not offer OA or may require authors to transfer copyright - these journals are listed here
For further information about publishing OA with Cambridge under this IRel deal please contact the Lifelong Learning & Research Services Librarian Kirsteen.Walters@setu.ie or Deputy Librarian Breda.Connell@setu.ie
In order to avail of this publishing deal 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. Requests to publish OA under the agreement are subject to approval by the SETU Carlow Head of Library and Information Services.
The following article types are eligible under this deal: research, case report, brief report, review or rapid communications format article.
For further details on the OA publishing arrangement see the Cambridge section on the IREL website