Transformative agreements are agreements established with a publisher or publishers and represent a move away from subscription-based reading to open access publishing. Transformative Agreements are sometimes referred to as Publish and Read Deals.
Transformative agreements in Ireland are negotiated by IReL. IReL is a consortium of Irish Research Libraries, it provides participating member institutions with access to a wide range of licensed e-resources and open access publishing agreements.
ATU Library has entered into transformative agreements with Elsevier Science Direct and a number of publishers as part of the IReL consortium of Irish Research Libraries. One advantage of such agreements is that they cover open access article processing charges or publication fee. APCs can range in value between €2000 and €5000. Part of the workflow of these agreements is that the Library needs to approve requests from ATU authors.
The publishers listed to the left of the guide offer those affiliated with the Atlantic Technological University the benefits of publishing open access.