The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is the coordinating body for the National Open Research Forum (NORF), the driving force behind the open research agenda in Ireland. Since 2022, DRI has supported NORF in administering the NORF Open Research Fund provided by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) to deliver the actions outlined in the National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030. Read on for a round-up of some of the recent NORF activities that have been delivered with the support of DRI!
Pilot Training on the Responsible Use of Research Metrics
The Responsible Use of Research Metrics project, supported by the NORF Open Research Fund, will pilot training on the Responsible Use of Research Metrics (RURM) through an online, accessible module for those involved in recruitment, research assessment, and promotion decisions, co-designed with the research community.
Vindicating Research Outputs
The NORF-funded SCOIR project has a draft model legislation to ensure open access to major research outputs produced by researchers and academics at Irish Institutions. The aim of this draft Bill is to vindicate the rights of researchers and their employers and funders to publish publicly-funded research outputs on open access platforms.
Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities
The Fourth Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities Conference (RESSH2024) took place in Galway on 23rd – 24th May 2024 as part of the NORF-funded project, Cultivating an Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences, led by Dr Lai Ma at University College Dublin.
TROPIC Project Presented at RESSH 2024
Dr Dounia Lakhzoum presented some of the key findings from the NORF-Funded TRaining for OPen research in an Irish Context (TROPIC) project’s survey on open research practices in Ireland at RESSH2024.
PID Roadmap
As part of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030, Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF) is developing a national Persistent Identifier (PID) Roadmap. PIDs enable research to be discovered and cited more easily, help to reduce administrative burden on researchers and institutions, and are key to implementing the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. Significant progress on approaches to the National PID Strategy and Roadmap has been made by Morebrains Cooperative in collaboration with the NORF persistent identifier task force, staff and collaborators over recent months. Read more on the PID Roadmap page.
NORF is funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research and Innovation and Science through the Higher Education Authority (HEA). It is coordinated by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), which is headquartered under the legal entity of the Royal Irish Academy.
