Project Manager: Aaron Binchy aaron.binchy@mu.ie, interim project manager, (while primary project manager Dr Catherine Ferris is on leave)
Project Dates: 1 November 2022 – 1 November 2024 (extended until April 2025)
News & Updates:
OpenAIRE will host a series of Open Insight Sessions, with the theme “One Year with the Irish Monitor”. You can find the registration links below:
Date |
Session Theme |
Webinar |
Interactive Segment |
Thu, Dec 12, 2024 12pm Irish time (13pm CET) | A Year in Review & OpenOrg Sprint | A review of Year 1’s milestones and achievements. Introductory “Monitor Essentials” demo for new users. | Short demo and interactive session on OpenOrgs deduplication for RPOs, with Q&A and attendee input. |
Thu, Jan 23, 2025 12pm Irish time (13pm CET) | Data Quality & Text Mining Q&A
| Presentation on data quality practices in the Monitor, recent updates, and the role of AI and text mining in enhancing Monitor insights. | Q&A with the data quality team, covering data consistency, deduplication, and text mining applications. |
Thu, Feb 13, 2025 12pm Irish time (13pm CET) | Strengthening Collaboration: Monitor & Repository Integration | Overview of repositories’ role in supporting national Open Access goals, with a focus on best practices for data integration. | Practical guidance on repository data integration, focusing on interoperability, and OpenAIRE Provide, with hands-on examples. |
Thu, Mar 13, 2025 12pm Irish time (13pm CET) | Monitor Challenges & Usability | Panel discussion with RPO/RFO representatives on challenges and feedback on usability and integration. | Live feedback session with users to pinpoint challenges and gather improvement suggestions. |
Thu, Apr 10, 2025 12pm Irish time (13pm CET) | Future Pathways & Community Insights | Reflections on Pilot successes and challenges, with guest insights from PathOS and other projects on monitoring Open Science. | Open discussion on potential ways to extend the benefits of the Monitor within Ireland’s Open Access landscape, with ideas for fostering long-term value and sustainability. |
Project Plan: 10.5281/zenodo.7331432
Project Documentation | Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/communities/irel-national-oa-monitor
Advisory Group: https://irel.ie/oamonitor-advisorygroup/
Mailing List Archive: https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=NATIONAL-OA-MONITOR-UPDATES
Subscribe to the Mailing List: https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NATIONAL-OA-MONITOR-UPDATES&A=1
Pilot National Open Access Monitor: https://oamonitor.ireland.openaire.eu/
National Open Access Monitor Ireland Report: https://zenodo.org/records/10838956
Resources from past events:
- 12 Dec 2024: Open Insight Sessions: One Year with the Irish Monitor, “A Year in Review & OpenOrgs Sprint”: slides | recording
- 24 May 2024: 2nd OpenOrgs Sprint for RPOs:
- 16 May 2024: OpenAPC for RPOs and RFOs: slides | recording
- 25 April 2024: 1st OpenOrg Sprint: slides | recording
- 15 April 2024: Irish National Open Access Monitor – Training for Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) (webinar recording) | Slides
- 27 March 2024: Irish National Open Access Monitor – Training for Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) slides | (webinar recording)
- Mar 20 2024: Monitor launch webinar: slides and recording
- Mar 20 2024: National Open Access Monitor Ireland Report published
- Mar 8 2024: National OA Monitor Launch Marks a New Chapter in the Irish Open Science Landscape
- Dec 1 2023 National Open Access Monitor, Draft Report: Stakeholder Feedback: Response Dataset
- Nov 28 2023 Recording & Slides: OpenAIRE National Open Access Monitor RFO Training
- Nov 22 2023 Recording & Slides: OpenAIRE National Open Access Monitor RPO Training
- Nov 16 2023 OpenAIRE National Open Access Monitor, Draft Report
- Nov 10 2023 National Open Access Monitor Survey: Organisational Identity: Responses Dataset
- Oct 31 2023 Deadline Extended for National Open Access Monitor Survey: Organisational Identity (COB 7th November)
- Oct 26 2023 National Open Access Monitor: OpenAIRE Training Sessions for RPOs & RFOs
- Oct 18 2023 OpenAIRE National Open Access Monitor: Inception Report
- Oct 16 2023 Recording & Slides: National Open Access Monitor Survey: Organisational Identity Webinar
- Oct 9 2023 National Open Access Monitor Survey: Organisational Identity
- Sept 25 2023 Recording & Slides: Developing the National Open Access Monitor, Ireland: Stakeholder Webinar
- Aug 31 2023 Developing the National Open Access Monitor, Ireland: Stakeholder Webinar
- July 26 2023 OpenAIRE Awarded Contract for the National Open Access Monitor, Ireland
- June 09 2023 National Open Access Monitor Project: Mailing List
- June 01 2023 National Open Access Monitor Survey: Outcome Webinar Recording
- April 13 2023 National Open Access Monitor Survey “Defining Requirements” Update
- Feb 02 2023 National Open Access Monitor Survey: Defining Requirements
- Jan 24 2023 Participate in the National Open Access Monitor project
- Jan 19 2023 Introducing the National Open Access Monitor and its Call for Stakeholder Participation
- Nov 21 2022 NORF National Action Plan and Projects’ Launch Event
- Nov 15 2022 IReL to develop National Open Access Monitor
- Nov 15 2022 Ireland’s National Open Research Forum Awards €1.16 Million to Six Collaborative Projects to Advance Open Research