A public webinar was hosted as part of the National Open Access Monitor Project on 3rd May, to provide an overview of the project and the first stakeholder survey “Defining Requirements”; to review the results of the survey in detail; and to advise on next steps for stakeholders. The recording and slides are now available: […]
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National Open Access Monitor Survey “Defining Requirements” Update
Survey Outcome The results of the first stakeholder survey of the National Open Access Monitor Project “Defining Requirements” have been published: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7822366. The purpose of the survey was to capture stakeholder input on the tender requirements for the National Open Access Monitor. The survey was designed to: Arrive at a community-agreed definition for open access […]
Read More →Vacancy: Community Engagement Officer
IReL seeks to appoint a Community Engagement Officer to support the consortium’s members and ensure stakeholders within the Irish higher education and research sector are informed about and engaged with IReL’s work to support access to research outputs. Closing Date for applications: Sunday, 30th of April 2023.
Read More →IREL Open Access Analyst
IReL is pleased to announce that Annika Lindh has joined the IReL team in the newly created position of Open Access Analyst. Annika will be working on enhancing our understanding of the usage and impact of our open access publisher agreements. She says “happy to be part of the IReL team! I’m looking forward to […]
Read More →Participate in the National Open Access Monitor project
Registration is now open for stakeholders to patriciate in the National Open Access Monitor project. We encourage anyone with a role in currently (or potentially) monitoring open access to research publications in Ireland, or who will enable monitoring of open access in Ireland, or who will use the resulting open access Monitor, to contribute to […]
Read More →The Company of Biologists and IReL renew Open Access
Following the success of our first three-year Read & Publish Open Access (OA) agreement with IReL, The Company of Biologists are delighted to announce that we have signed a renewal agreement from 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2025. Click here for more information
Read More →IReL’s year in review, 2022
As we near the end of 2022, an overview of IReL’s work, challenges and achievements during the year: Expanding IReL membership: work has been ongoing to prepare for new institutions joining the consortium in 2023 – we’ll be announcing details of this very soon. Our work included securing additional funding; coordination between the new members […]
Read More →IReL to develop National Open Access Monitor
IReL are very pleased that we have been selected by the National Open Research Forum (NORF) to develop the National Open Access Monitor. Dr Catherine Ferris will lead the project, which will analyse and track progress towards a national target of 100% OA to research publications. Congratulations to our colleagues in University of Galway, Royal […]
Read More →Minister Harris announces progress in Open Access to Irish research, benefitting researchers, students and citizens
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has announced that the IReL initiative, funded by the Department, is succeeding in making Irish research publications openly available. Read the full press release from the Department here.
Read More →PLOS and IReL Sign Three Year Open Access Publishing Agreement
PLOS, the non-profit open access publisher, and IReL, the Irish library consortium, today announced a new three year open access agreement, which allows researchers at eight participating institutions to publish open access articles in PLOS journals. This agreement is IReL’s twentieth open access agreement and its first with a fully open access publisher. […]
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