| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Brill |
| Agreement ID | dgb2026ie |
| Agreement labeling | IReL De Gruyter Brill agreement 2026-2028 |
| Is the agreement document publicly available? | Yes |
| URL | https://irel.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IReL-De-Gruyter-Brill-license-2026-2028-public.pdf |
| Agreement period | 1/1/2026 – 12/31/2028 |
| Consortia / Institution | IReL |
| Country | Ireland |
| COST | |
| Comments on cost development | This is IReL’s first agreement with DGB |
| Read-access costs
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, is a split of the cost between read access and publishing services defined? |
Yes |
| If a split of the cost between read access and publishing services is defined, what percentage of the overall agreement cost relates to read access? | More than 50% |
| PUBLISHING-RELATED TERMS | |
| Publication output
What is the approximate number of annual corresponding author publications from your institution/consortium with the publisher (in closed, hybrid and fully OA journals)? |
45 |
| Is the agreement’s provision for OA publishing capped (e.g., limited to a specific number of articles per year) or uncapped? | Uncapped |
| Coverage
Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (i.e., journals in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement? |
Yes |
| Are APC-based full open access journals covered by the agreement? | Yes, alongside hybrid titles |
| Are journals operating under other business models (S2O, Diamond OA, etc.) covered by the agreement? | Yes |
| Other business models | At the time of writing 54 of De Gruyter imprint journals are S2O. DGB aim to increase this. IReL’s authors will be guaranteed OA eligibility for all titles even if journals do not meet threshold to adopt S2O. |
| Article types
Eligible article types |
Original Paper, Review, Book Review, Continuing Education, Case Reports, Juristic Paper and Brief Communication |
| Risk sharing
What risk-sharing mechanisms exist in cases of exceeding or not reaching the anticipated number of OA publications under the agreement? |
No risk-sharing mechanism |
| READ ACCESS-RELATED TERMS | |
| Coverage of read access
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, is access to all relevant journals required by your users covered by the agreement? |
Yes |
| Perpetual access
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, are perpetual access (post cancellation/termination) rights included? |
Yes |
| If perpetual access rights to subscription content is included, are there associated fees (for continued access to the platform, local hosting, data delivery, etc.)? | No |
| OA WORKFLOW | |
| Author workflow and verification
The date for articles’ eligibility is based on: |
Acceptance date |
| How do consortia or institutions verify author eligibility and approve OA funding? | Via publisher’s dashboard or third-party platform (pre-publication) |
| Does the agreement include mechanisms to correct mistakenly approved, missed, or not approved publications (e.g., retrospective OA conversion of closed articles or refunding paid APCs)? | Yes |
| Does the publisher’s reporting on publications satisfy the needs of your institution (frequency, metadata fields, data quality, etc.)? | Yes |
| May authors be charged additional publication fees (such as page charges, article development charges, etc.)? | No |
| How would you assess the practical implementation of the agreement? | Too early to assess |
| PUBLISHING LICENSES | |
| Author’s licenses
Open access license types included |
CC BY preference, exceptions allowed |
| Has the author workflow been customized to direct authors to a certain license (e.g., by making the option for CC BY the preselected default)? | No |
| If the agreement covers licenses more restrictive than CC BY, do the License to Publish agreements (LtP) offered to authors differ from the publisher’s standard LtP? | Not part of the negotiations/not discussed |
| In addition to the OA publishing provision, does the agreement include mechanisms to make author accepted manuscripts open access? | No |
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