On Tuesday, 11 March 2025 at 2 p.m. (UCT), the Knowledge Rights 21 programme and NORF-funded SCOIR project are teaming up to host a webinar led by Professor Eoin O’Dell, lead principal investigator of SCOIR.

Professor O’Dell will discuss the draft Research Outputs and Open Access Bill, which marks Ireland’s progress towards incorporating open access policies. This webinar will help you understand the nuances of open access publishing in Ireland and the reasons why this Bill has the potential to create a significant impact when it is implemented in the Irish regime.

SCOIR (Secondary rights, Copyright, Open access, Institutional policies, and Rights retention) is funded under the NORF Open Research Fund 2023. Strand I: Priority Actions. Co-led by Trinity College Dublin and TU Dublin, the project aims to achieve the objectives outlined by NORF by drafting secondary rights legislation for Ireland and by creating an open access and rights retention (RR) policy framework for institutions and funders.

The potential impact of secondary rights legislation on institutional RR policies will be considered alongside the existing policy landscape and the recommendations of the National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030, National Open Research Landscape Report, Copyright Legislation to Support Rights Retention Policy Brief.