Open research

Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF) has awarded funding to six new collaborative projects to implement priority actions in Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030. By building national capacity and infrastructure for open research, these projects will support the visibility and impact of Irish research…

« The humanities and social sciences (HSS) have recently witnessed an exponential growth in data-driven research. In response, attention has been afforded to datasets and accompanying data papers as outputs of the research and dissemination ecosystem. In 2015, two data journals dedicated to HSS disciplines appeared in this landscape: Journal of…

« The Microbiology Society is delighted to announce that our sound science journal, Access Microbiology, has been re-launched as an innovative open research platform and is now open for submissions. It is free for authors to submit and publish on the platform during the first year of launch,…

« We present zbMATH Open, the most comprehensive collection of reviews and bibliographic metadata of scholarly literature in mathematics.Besides our website zbMATH.org which is openly accessible since the beginning of this year, we provide API endpoints to offer our data.APIs improve interoperability with others, i.e., digital libraries, and allow…

« The Irish Humanities Alliance was delighted to collaborate with the National Open Research Forum on hosting this web event on Open Access and the Humanities.
In this recording, Dr Daniel Bangert, National Open Research Coordinator, introduces our panel of experts to be chaired by Prof. Chris Williams, UCC (IHA,…

« The announcement of the closure of Microsoft Academic later this year, may have left the research community largely unmoved, although its demise has significant implications for those working with the service’s substantial database. Here, Aaron Tay, Alberto Martín-Martín, and Sven E. Hug¸ discuss what set Microsoft Academic apart from its…

« 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.
NORF has been developing a National Open Research Landscape Report to summarise progress and challenges…

« Researchers are satisfied with their ability to share their own research data but may struggle with accessing other researchers’ data – according to PLOS research released as a preprint this week. Therefore, to increase data sharing in a findable and accessible way, PLOS will focus on better…

« Iowa State University Library and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced a three-year Open Access agreement that allows researchers to publish in PLOS’ suite of journals without incurring Article Processing Charges (APCs). (…) »

« (…) Plan A recommends that the international scholarly communication community begin immediate and significant action to:

DISCOVER critical missing pieces of the open scholarship puzzle so we can design open reforms more effectively; DESIGN, build and deploy an array of much need open infrastructure tools to help accelerate the spread…