This agreement gives current staff and students the ability to make their articles accepted for publication in eligible Sage journals open access, without the author paying an article processing charge (APC). Journals included for OA publishing are Sage Choice hybrid journals (subscription journals where some of the articles are open access) and in most Sage Gold journals (fully open access).
The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of ATU at the time the article is accepted for publication. They 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 ATU.
Please Note: Unlike the Elsevier Science Direct agreement no set allocation of APCs has been assigned for ATU researchers. Staff and students must compete nationally for the APCs allocated via the IReL agreement
