Congratulations to Dr Lai Ma, Associate Professor at School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin (UCD) and project lead of the NORF–funded initiative Cultivating An Open Research Culture In The Humanities And Social Sciences who has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for her project, ‘Sustainable and Collaborative Research Information for Bibliodiverse Ecosystems: A Transnational Study (SCRiBe)’.

The project will critically examine the conceptualisation of ‘open’ in the open access movement, as well as boundaries, limitations, and exceptions in the development of open research infrastructure since the late 1990s. By exploring the development of open research infrastructure from a transnational perspective, this project aims to identify the constraints that hinder the growth of bibliodiversity in three different geographical regions: Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.