The Budapest Open Access Initiative defines open access to literature as its “free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers…”
Coordinating trustworthy research infrastructure
IReL is increasingly involved in managing vital open research infrastructure. IReL leads the Irish ORCID and Datacite consortia, and manages the NORF-funded Irish Open Access Monitor.