Events
Save the Date!
We are delighted to announce that Ireland’s first annual National Open Research Festival will take place at the Royal Irish Academy, on 2-3 November 2023. Further information will be made available over the coming weeks. For now, make sure to mark the dates in your...
DRI Coffee Morning: January 2023
Date: Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 10:00 Location: Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin 2 and Zoom On Wednesday, 25 January, Ireland’s National Open Research Coordinator, Dr. Daniel Bangert, will host the Digital Repository of Ireland’s first coffee morning of...
NORF National Action Plan and Projects’ Launch Event
Date: Monday, 21 November 2022 Time: 14:00-15:30 GMT Location: Online Register hereThe National Open Research Forum (NORF) is delighted to announce an online event on 21 November 2022 to launch Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030 and projects...
National Open Research Coordinator Presents at Ireland’s first EOSC National Tripartite Event
On 28 September 2022, the Department for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS) hosted Ireland’s first European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) National Tripartite Event at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Pearse St, Dublin. The...
EOSC National Tripartite Event, 28 September 2022
An Irish EOSC National Tripartite Event is being hosted by DFHERIS, EOSC Association, HEAnet and NORF.
NORF collaborates with FAIRsFAIR and EOSC Synergy on Data Stewardship training
In mid-July, Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF), FAIRsFAIR and EOSC Synergy delivered a three-day workshop to support the development of data stewardship skills among staff in higher education institutions and other research performing organisations in Ireland.
Open Access and Bibliodiversity in Irish Scholarly Publishing, 26 August 2021
NORF will hold a workshop with Irish academic publishers and other stakeholders to explore publishing practices across disciplines as well as models and infrastructure for Open Access publishing.
Open Access and the Humanities: A Dialogue on Future Directions for Ireland, 25 August 2021
Together, Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF) and the Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) will host a workshop for researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to discuss future directions for Ireland’s transition to Open Access.
NORF, FAIRsFAIR and EOSC Synergy Data Steward Instructor Training
Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF), FAIRsFAIR and EOSC Synergy will deliver a three-day workshop on the 12th, 14th and 16th of July 2021 to support the development of data stewardship skills among staff in higher education institutions and other research...
NORF Open Research in Ireland webinar: Open Access, 4 May 2021
As part of a webinar series on Open Research in Ireland, the National Open Research Forum (NORF) is presenting a webinar focused on Open Access to research publications.
Recent Posts
Commoning the Humanities and Social Sciences at RESSH2024
The Fourth Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities Conference (RESSH2024) took place in Galway on 23rd - 24th May 2024 as part of the NORF-funded project, Cultivating an Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences, led by Dr Lai Ma at...
TROPIC project presented at RESSH 2024 and Sonraí Data Stewardship Conferences
Talks by Dr. Dounia Lakhzoum, at RESSH 2024 in Galway, and by Dr. Dermot Lynott, at the Sonraí Data Stewardship Conference in Cork Dr. Dounia Lakhzoum presented some of the key findings from the NORF-Funded TRaining for OPen research in an Irish Context (TROPIC)...
QSA*Net Team Participating in the 51st SAI Annual Conference
Post-doctoral researcher, Dr. Rong Bao presenting the project poster at the conference Image 2: QSA*Net SAI Conference project poster The team working on the NORF-funded project, QSA*Net, were pleased to participate in the 51st Sociological Association of Ireland...
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.
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.