Host Institution: Technological University of the Shannon

Lead Applicant: Dr Frank Houghton

2022 Project: Open Access Transition Programme

This project engaged extensively with partners in the national and international scholarly publishing communities to conduct a feasibility study and pilot with a view to establishing a national platform for Diamond Open Access publication of journals and books. This project, by adopting international advisory governance structures and international benchmarking, aimed to support and advance the ambition of Impact 2030 that Ireland become “an international model of best practice” in open research.

The projects key outputs of a digital directory of publishers and the PublishOA Landscape Report, that maps the current state of scholarly publishing across Ireland, showcase the advancement towards this aim.

A sustainable network is now being created to support Diamond OA publishing. Building on Publish OA’s groundwork from 2022- 2025, this network aims to establish an all-island collaboration empowering Irish academic communities, libraries and publishers to sustainably manage scholarly communication and protect bibliodiversity in the public interest.

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