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Ireland's Vision for a Unified Open Repository Network from Open Repositories 2024
Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:16:00 +0000
The Open Repositories 2024 conference showcased significant advancements in the world of open scholarly publishing. This year's conference provided a platform for discussing various transformative initiatives, focusing on the COAR Notify protocol, RAID Persistent Identifiers (PIDs), and rights retention. One of the highlights for us was the opportunity to present Ireland's vision for a unified
New University of Galway Research Repository now live
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:35:00 +0000
We are excited to announce that the new University of Galway Research Repository is live.This new repository shows our commitment to Open Research by providing researchers and their collaborators with a dedicated space for all their Open Research outputs. The repository has improved features to support different media types. This helps ensure that different kinds of research are easy to access,
Attending CONUL 2024 in Belfast to give a talk on ‘Building Community to Coordinate Ireland’s Fragmented Open Repository Network’
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:52:00 +0000
The Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL)
held its 2024 conference this year in Belfast, where I gave a 20-minute
presentation on the National Open Research Forum (NORF) Open Access Repositories Project. The theme of the talk was how the project is bringing the
fragmented repository community together across the island of Ireland. The aim
of the project is to create a