At the CONUL conference in Belfast in June, Susan Reilly and Jack Hyland from IReL led a workshop titled “OA in 2030: IReL planning for the growth of OA in Ireland”. The workshop was primarily attended by library staff of all grades, and also by publishers. You can read our report on the event here: …
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Read More →On 10th June, IReL celebrated 20 years of strengthening Irish research infrastructure at an event hosted at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin by its chairperson, President of Maynooth University Professor Eeva Leinonen. IReL brought together librarians, academics, and policymakers to reflect on IReL’s impact on the Irish research and education landscape and discuss its …
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Read More →IReL welcomes Dolores Mee to the team. Dolores has recently been appointed Communications Officer and has previously worked with the Kildare Library and Arts Service. In this new role, Dolores will provide support IReL members and engage with stakeholders.
Read More →IReL endorses the ICOLC Statement on AI in Licensing IReL, the Irish Research e-Library, has endorsed the ICOLC Statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Licensing, along with a growing number of research libraries and licensing consortia worldwide. The ICOLC statement has been developed in response to concerns that new license language defining rights and restrictions related …
Read More →https://oamonitor.ireland.openaire.eu/ The National Open Research Forum (NORF), the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL), and OpenAIRE proudly announce the launch of the National Open Access Monitor, a cornerstone in Ireland’s shift towards a fully open access research ecosystem. This launch marks a significant phase in a project that began months ago, following OpenAIRE’s selection through a …
Read More →The Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) has published an analysis of the publication data from its 2022 open access agreements with publishers. This most recent data from agreements with 24 academic publishers shows that 3,121 articles were published open access with the support of IReL in 2022. This is an increase on the 2,813 articles that …
Read More →IReL is in the final stages of negotiating new transformative agreements with the following publishers. BMJ (now completed) ECS (now completed) Emerald (now completed) IEEE (now completed) Microbiology Society (now completed) Oxford University Press (now completed) Royal Irish Academy (now completed) Royal Society (now completed) Sage (now completed) Taylor and Francis (now completed) We are …
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Read More →Description: https://irel.ie/national-oa-monitor-openaire-training-rpos-rfos/ Click to view slides here: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10202640 Dashboard Manager Application Form: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/maynoothuniversity/national-open-access-monitor-dashboard-manager-application-form
Read More →Published: OpenAIRE National Open Access Monitor, Draft Report: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10136295 OpenAIRE have been contracted (as per the tender LI2555F here) to deliver a report which:• Provides an initial, baseline analysis of the state of open access in Ireland, both from an overall perspective and domain-level.• Investigates the accuracy and viability of the data on current Irish open access …
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Read More →Published: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10100895 This dataset contains the response data from the ‘National Open Access Monitor Survey: Organisational Identity which was carried out between 9th October and 9th November 2023 under the National Open Access Monitor Project: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8420404 This survey was run to: compile a complete list of Irish research performing organisations (RPO) and research funding organisations (RFO) to be …
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