News
This page includes news from NORF, its associated research projects and initiatives and the broader open research community, featuring opportunities such as calls for papers and awards, both nationally and internationally.
New publication exploring open research viewpoints from the humanities
Lai Ma and Claire Davin from the Cultivating an Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences project recently published an article in the Open Information Science Journal: ‘Ticking a Box’ or Transforming Practice? Open Research Viewpoints from the...
Putting Ireland on the map
On June 1, Ireland was represented at the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) 2026 Conference by a delegation from the University of Galway and IReL. Cillian Joy introduced the work underway at Open Repositories Ireland to build a national infrastructure...
Latest news from TROPIC and the Irish Reproducibility Network
Dr Dermot Lynott, project lead of the TROPIC project and chair of the Irish Reproducibility Network, presented at the Open Research and Research Integrity Workshop, hosted by the Department of Psychology, Mary Immaculate College. The event also included a focus on...
Open Research in the Humanities
The project team behind the Cultivating an Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences project has recently published an article in the special issue, "Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences" of the Journal of Electronic Publishing[1]. In...
CORD Partnership launches range of services to support research-policy-practice engagement in criminal justice
The Criminal Justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership aims to embed a culture of interdisciplinary open research in criminal justice in Ireland. It achieves this by bringing together criminal justice researchers, policymakers and practitioners to decide...
New collaboration for NORF-funded Open Research networks in Ireland!
Sonraí, the Data Stewardship Network has teamed up with Open Repositories Ireland (ORI) and the Irish Reproducibility Network (IRN) to sign a Memorandum of Understanding from the 27 March 2026 that helps to strengthen Ireland’s Open Research ecosystem. Through this...
IReL to Host the National Open Research Forum (NORF)
The Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) has been appointed as the new host of the National Open Research Forum (NORF). This transition follows a formal mandate issued by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS), which...
The ENGAGED Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap Roadshow
The ENGAGED Roadshow is well underway, and the conversations happening across the country have been energising. Over the past number of weeks, we have had the opportunity to bring the ENGAGED Roadmap to colleagues and communities at Trinity College Dublin, South East...
Managing an Open Repository? Here’s how Open Repositories of Ireland can help
The Open Repositories Ireland (ORI) invites managers of Open Access repositories who want to improve their repository's visibility to join the OpenAIRE Adopter Assistance Programme. Adopting the OpenAIRE version 4 metadata standard is a clear step towards repository...
Community voices shaping the ENGAGED roadmap
The ENGAGED project continues to be shaped through genuine co creation with the communities it serves. Across our collective intelligence workshops, NGOs, policy makers, citizen scientists, community partners, and people with lived experience have actively contributed...
Developing RDM expertise: A Librarian’s Review of the Introduction to Data Stewardship Micro-Credential
In a recent LibFocus guest post, Margaret Irons (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) reflects on her experience of completing Sonraí’s Introduction to Data Stewardship micro-credential. She shares how the course strengthened her knowledge of research data...
Advocacy for Data Stewards: It’s about people too, not just data
Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network recently hosted a Masterclass on Advocacy Skills for Data Stewards with DANS, the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data, and CaSDAR, the Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research Network+ in the UK....
Data steward competencies: findings from a European job description study
Sonraí Irish Data Stewardship Network is pleased to share the outcomes of a recent UCD MLIS Service Learning internship hosted in partnership with Asiera. Over four weeks, Ruoxin Liu, collected and analysed 43 data steward job descriptions from 13 European countries,...
NORF-funded CORD Partnership showcased at DFHERIS conference
On 25 June 2026, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS) organised a conference entitled, Strengthening the Impact of Research and Data on Policy Development. Invited to present on the work of the previously...
Dr Dermot Lynott contributes to Nature paper on research reproducibility
Only half of the published research findings in disciplines such as economics, psychology and education can be replicated by others according to new findings reported in Nature by Dr Dermot Lynott, project lead of the TROPIC project and chair of the Irish...