[BOAI] Re: Ireland's National Portal for Open Access to Research Goes Live

[Constantinescu Nicolaie]

Looks very neat! Thank you for this resource. Good luck!

P.S. What software is used for the aggregator!?

On 8 June 2010 11:43, Rachel Hill <rachel.hill at dcu.ie> wrote:

>  *** Apologies for cross-posting ***
>
> *Ireland's National Portal for Open Access to Research Goes Live *
>
> Ireland’s new national portal for Open Access to Irish published research
> will go live today. RIAN - http://www.rian.ie- will act as a single point
> of access to national research output, and contains content harvested from
> the institutional repositories of the seven Irish Universities and Dublin
> Institute of Technology. RIAN will significantly increase the visibility and
> impact of Irish research and will expand to harvest content from other Irish
> Open Access providers as the service develops.
>
> A national network of institutional repositories will increase the exposure
> of national research output, and allows services, such as enhanced
> searching, and statistics generation, to be developed using economies of
> scale. RIAN will demonstrate the impact of research to potential funders,
> who recognise the value of wider research dissemination.
>
> The Irish Government has identified growth in research as critical to its
> future as a knowledge economy. Raising the research profile is a key
> strategy in the Universities’ strategic plans, and the ability to showcase
> research output and identify institutional research strengths is extremely
> important in attracting new funding and high quality staff.
>
> The development of RIAN was managed by the Irish Universities Association
> Librarians' Group and is supported by the Association. This three year
> project was equally funded by the Universities and the Irish Government’s
> Strategic Innovation Fund which is administered by the Higher Education
> Authority.
>
> *Benefits of RIAN to Irish authors:*
>
>     * Broadens worldwide access to material
>
>     * Increases citations for research material
>
>     * Makes easier access to material via search engines such as Google,
> Google Scholar and Yahoo
>
>     * Raises profile of Irish researchers internationally
>
> *Benefits to Irish institutions include:*
>
>     * Provides a showcase of the institution’s research output
>
>     * Raises the profile of the institution’s research internationally
> through broader access and citations
>
>     * Increases potential for collaboration and synthesis between Irish and
> international researchers
>
> **
>
> *Support for the Initiative from the heads of the 7 Irish universities:*
>
> *“UCD welcomes the development of global access to Irish university
> research outputs which will contribute to the social, economic and cultural
> objectives of a knowledge society." *
>
> Dr. Hugh Brady, President UCD
>
> *"It is in the national interest to extend access to Irish research output
> at institutional and sectoral level so as to maximise the long-term
> strategic impact and thereby help develop a knowledge society."*
>
> Professor Ferdinand Von Prondzynski, President, DCU
>
> *"The national research portal will increase the international profile of
> individual researchers and of Irish Universities and will thereby enhance
> the national research endeavour". *
>
> Professor Don Barry, President, University of Limerick.
>
> *“Research at NUI Maynooth has achieved world-class standing in many
> areas. This initiative will provide a world-wide gateway to that research
> and build on our own institutional repository for publications.” *
>
> Professor John Hughes, President, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
>
> *“University College Cork’s institutional repository has the potential to
> transform the dissemination of our scholarly output and will be the point of
> access for these resources for future generations*.”
>
> Dr. Michael Murphy, President, University College Cork.
>
> * “The project provides an international window on Irish Research output
> and NUI Galway is delighted to be part of this.” *
>
> Dr James J. Browne, Uachtarán – President, National University of Ireland,
> Galway
>
> *“The development of an institutional repository to demonstrate our
> research activity and achievement is a central element of Trinity’s research
> support infrastructure. [RIAN] will also play a vital role in communicating
> the strength of Irish research to a global audience, in attracting the
> highest quality of research to Ireland and in enabling valuable links with
> industrial partners.” *
>
> * *Dr. John Hegarty, Provost, Trinity College Dublin*. *
>
> *Ends*
>
> *For more information contact:*
>
> Paul Sheehan, Director of Library Services, Dublin City University
>
> Telephone: (+353 1) 7005211, Email: paul.sheehan at dcu.ie
>
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