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Digital & Open Scholarship News
National Open Access Repository Project: Advancing Towards OpenAIRE Metadata Alignment
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:58:00 +0000
IntroductionIn recent years, Ireland has emerged as a highly active research ecosystem in the global drive towards full open access infrastructure and transparent research practices. The National Open Access Repository Project is one of the six pilot projects funded by the National Open Research Forum (NORF) to transition Ireland to 100% open access by 2030, now complemented by a further thirteen
Imirce is LIVE - Thousands of Irish emigrant letters now available online
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:53:00 +0000
The University of Galway Library is pleased to announce that Imirce is now live. Imirce is a digital repository of thousands of Irish emigrant letters and memoirs dating from the late 1600s through to the mid-20th century. The letters and memoirs were collected from the Irish diaspora community in the U.S. and Ireland over five decades of research by Kerby A. Miller, Emeritus Professor of
Attending the first NORFest to give a talk on Community, Technology and Open Repositories
Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:05:00 +0000
In early November, I attended the first National Open Research Festival (NORFest: https://norf.ie/norfest-2023-programme/) a two-day event run by the National Open Research Forum (NORF) and the Digital Repository Ireland (DRI) at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The organisation and running were led by Dr Daniel Bangert, NORF’s National Open Research Coordinator, shortly before taking up his