The first stakeholder survey for the National Open Access Monitor Project is now open. The purpose of this survey is to capture stakeholder input on the tender requirements for the National Open Access Monitor. The tender will be based on the specifications of the NORF National Action Plan (2022), NORF National Open Research Landscape Report (2021), Science Europe’s briefing paper on Open Access Monitoring (2021), the NORF Policy Brief on National Open Access Monitoring (2021) and the National Open Access Monitor Project Plan (2022).
This stakeholder survey is designed to:
- Arrive at a community-agreed definition for open access in this context at the national level, and
- Validate, and if required expand on, the user stories and functional requirements of the National Open Access Monitor as identified by the NORF OA Monitoring Policy Brief Group
Stakeholders, in this context, are defined in the widest sense: anyone with a role in currently or potentially monitoring open access to research publications in Ireland, or who will enable monitoring of open access in Ireland, or who will use the resulting open access Monitor, are all welcome to participate and contribute to this project.
The survey is open until 28 February 2023.
Further information, including details of drop-in support sessions and the link to the survey are available on the IReL website: https://irel.ie/oamonitor-february2023survey/
