Blogs

This page predominantly features blogs from NORF-funded research projects and initiatives, along with workshop summary reports.

Department of Justice hosts agenda-setting CORD Partnership workshop

Department of Justice hosts agenda-setting CORD Partnership workshop

In this blog, Ian Marder of the NORF funded project, Embedding a culture of interdisciplinary open research in Ireland’s criminal justice sector through a national Researcher-Practitioner/Policymaker Partnership, reports on the Criminal justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership’s third workshop of 2024, held at the Department of Justice on 11 July 2024.

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Webinar: Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences Hosted by Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP) with support by National Open Research Forum (NORF)

Webinar: Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences Hosted by Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP) with support by National Open Research Forum (NORF)

In this post, Beth Tyrrell and Lai Ma of the NORF-funded project, “Cultivating Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences” describe a webinar they hosted on Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences on the 26th April 2024. The webinar brought together international experts and Irish publishing pioneers for a discussion on Open Access Monographs grounded in practical working solutions by adapting the Diamond OA model.

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NORF is delighted to launch ‘Efficiency and Insight: A cost-benefit analysis for a central support service to support persistent identifier implementation in the Republic of Ireland’.

NORF is delighted to launch ‘Efficiency and Insight: A cost-benefit analysis for a central support service to support persistent identifier implementation in the Republic of Ireland’.

The National Open Research Forum is delighted to launch ‘Efficiency and Insight: A cost-benefit analysis for a central support service to support persistent identifier implementation in the Republic of Ireland’. This is the first of two publications in the NORF-led...

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Citizen Science Month blog: The Kid’s Trial

Citizen Science Month blog: The Kid’s Trial

April is Citizen Science Month and to mark the occasion we have invited early career researcher Simone LePage to blog about her experience of planning and implementing a project focusing on citizen science. Simone is a PhD Candidate with the Health Research Board...

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National Open Research Festival 2023 summary

National Open Research Festival 2023 summary

Ireland’s inaugural National Open Research Festival (#NORFest2023) took place on the 2 - 3 November, 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), in Dublin. The Festival was delivered with the support of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the Royal Irish Academy...

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Recent Posts
Developing an EOSC-Compatible National PID Strategy for Ireland

Developing an EOSC-Compatible National PID Strategy for Ireland

In May of this year, Ireland’s National Open Research Forum and HEAnet (Ireland’s National Research and Education Network and EOSC Mandated Organisation) were awarded funding by the RDA Tiger Cascade Grant Scheme to develop a national PID recommendation aligned with...

NORFest 2025 Registration Now Open

NORFest 2025 Registration Now Open

Ireland's National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025 will be held on 6-7 November 2025 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. This two-day event will spotlight global open science, cross-cutting policy agendas, and emerging themes in open research and innovation....

NORFest 2025 Programme Out Now!

NORFest 2025 Programme Out Now!

The programme for the National Open Research Festival 2025 (#NORFest2025), which will be held on 6-7 November 2025 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin is now published. Programme highlights include: A keynote talk by Ms. Joy Owango, Founding Director of the Training...

ROCHE updates: Conference Highlights and Team News

ROCHE updates: Conference Highlights and Team News

The goal of A Review of Open Research in Health Ecosystems in Ireland (ROCHE) is to understand policies, practices, challenges and opportunities for open research in commercialisable research, particularly in Digital/Connected Health research and innovation in...

SCOIR Roadshow Series

SCOIR Roadshow Series

As part of their national outreach under the SCOIR (Secondary rights, Copyright, Open Access, Institutional policies, and Rights retention) project, the team are thrilled to announce their Autumn Roadshow Series - a set of dynamic, in-person conversations around...