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As a member of the IReL consortium, University College Cork has an agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles without open access fees (APCs). Further information can be found at https://irel.ie/open-access/.

To benefit from this agreement, corresponding authors must be a current staff member or student of University College Cork at the time the article is accepted for publication. For further information, see https://libguides.ucc.ie/OAagreements.