OpenAIRE National Open Access Monitor, Draft Report

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 publishing output.
• Documents challenges that should be addressed in long-term monitoring solutions and recommends steps to be taken, including workflows for data validation and enrichment

This draft is an interim report, and includes reference to the initial feedback from IReL and the National Open Access Monitor Project Advisory Group, which has been documented here. The final report will be published in January 2024.


Stakeholders are invited to review and provide feedback on this draft interim report. 

The feedback form is available here, and submissions are welcome until COB 30th November 2023: https://maynoothuniversity.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/draft-national-open-access-report-stakeholder-feedback