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Advancing Ireland’s Open Repository Landscape: Webinar 1 and Where We Go From Here
On 30 June 2024, the National Open Access Repository Project hosted its first webinar, gathering key stakeholders, experts, and community members to discuss one of Ireland’s most important initiatives for enhancing open access to research. Funded by the National Open...
Connecting the evidence-for-policy and open research agendas
In this blog Patrice McCormack and 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, report on the conference, “What next for Irish Public Policy Development?”, at ILAS Auditorium, University of Galway, 28 May 2024.
Draft model legislation for Secondary rights, Copyright, Open access, Institutional policies, and Rights retention (SCOIR)
We are delighted that the NORF-funded SCOIR project has a Draft model legislation to ensure open access to major Research Outputs produced by researchers and academics at Irish Institutions. SCOIR aims to unharness the power of open research by assessing and...
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.
Pilot Training on the Responsible Use of Research Metrics (RURM)
The project partners are delighted to share an update on our ongoing project to develop a pilot training resource on the Responsible Use of Research Metrics (RURM) for the Irish research community. In the past few months, the project partners have completed five...
NORF welcomes new Project Manager
NORF are delighted to welcome Dr Chris Burbidge as project manager to our team based at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). In this role, Chris will support the implementation of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030. Chris comes to NORF from iCRAG,...
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NORF launches Ireland’s National Persistent Identifier Strategy and Roadmap
On Friday 25 October 2024, the National Open Research Forum launched Ireland’s National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy and Roadmap, Impact, Openness, Interoperability: Recommendations and a Roadmap for an Irish National PID Strategy, during a meeting of the...
QSA*Net co-host event on Open Research Initiatives
On 22 October 2024, during Maynooth University’s Research Week, the NORF-funded project QSA*Net: Promoting Open Research in Qualitative Social Science co-hosted a hybrid event titled 'Current Open Research Initiatives at Maynooth University'.The event showcased...
Save the date: Launch of the National Persistent Identifier Strategy and Roadmap
25 October, 10:00-10:45 | Online We are delighted to announce that Ireland's National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy and Roadmap, Impact, Openness, Interoperability: Recommendations and a Roadmap for an Irish National PID Strategy, will be launched during a...
Engaging with Your Community to Effect Change: An Irish Case Study
The below case study is by Alice Meadows, a co-founder of the MoreBrains Cooperative. It was published in the Scholarly Kitchen on 3 October 2024. This case study coincides with ‘Interoperability, Openness, and Impact - Recommendations and Roadmap for an Irish...
EOSC EU Node technical launch event on 10 October
10 October 2024, 08:30-12:15 | Online The European Commission is organising an EOSC EU Node technical launch event on Thursday, 10 October between 08:30-12:15. The aim of the event is to communicate the technical launch of the EOSC EU node, with a view to the EOSC...