Looks very neat! Thank you for this resource. Good luck!<br><br>P.S. What software is used for the aggregator!?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 June 2010 11:43, Rachel Hill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel.hill@dcu.ie">rachel.hill@dcu.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<h2><b><b>Ireland's National Portal for Open
Access to Research Goes Live </b></b></h2>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ireland’s new national portal for Open
Access to Irish published research will go live today. RIAN - <a href="http://www.rian.ie-" target="_blank">http://www.rian.ie-</a> 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.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p>
<p><b>Benefits of RIAN to Irish authors:</b></p>
<p> * Broadens worldwide access to material</p>
<p> * Increases citations for research material</p>
<p> * Makes easier access to material via search engines such as
Google, Google Scholar and Yahoo</p>
<p> * Raises profile of Irish researchers internationally</p>
<p><b>Benefits to Irish institutions include:</b></p>
<p> * Provides a showcase of the institution’s research output</p>
<p> * Raises the profile of the institution’s research
internationally through broader access and citations</p>
<p> * Increases potential for collaboration and synthesis between
Irish and international researchers</p>
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<p><b>Support for the Initiative from the heads of the 7 Irish
universities:</b></p>
<p><i>“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." </i></p>
<p>Dr. Hugh Brady, President UCD</p>
<p><i>"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."</i></p>
<p>Professor Ferdinand Von Prondzynski, President, DCU</p>
<p><i>"The national research portal will increase the international
profile of individual researchers and of Irish Universities and will
thereby enhance the national research endeavour". </i></p>
<p>Professor Don Barry, President, University of Limerick.</p>
<p><i>“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.” </i></p>
<p>Professor John Hughes, President, National University of Ireland,
Maynooth.</p>
<p><i>“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</i>.”
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<p>Dr. Michael Murphy, President, University College Cork.</p>
<p><i> “The project provides an international window on Irish Research
output and NUI Galway is delighted to be part of this.” </i></p>
<p>Dr James J. Browne, Uachtarán – President, National University of
Ireland, Galway</p>
<p><i>“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.” </i></p>
<p><i> </i>Dr. John Hegarty, Provost, Trinity College Dublin<b>.
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<p><b>Ends</b></p>
<p><b>For more information contact:</b></p>
<p>Paul Sheehan, Director of Library Services, Dublin City University</p>
<p>Telephone: (+353 1) 7005211, Email: <a href="mailto:paul.sheehan@dcu.ie" target="_blank">paul.sheehan@dcu.ie</a></p>
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