TU Dublin’s Open Research Successes Lead the Way
International Open Access Week runs from 21-27 October 2024, with the theme Community over Commercialisation. This theme calls for prioritising approaches to Open Research that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. TU Dublin and its community have had a long-standing commitment to Open Access and Open Research, and we are proud to celebrate some of our achievements in these areas, many of which are non-commercial, grassroots initiatives.
Highlights include:
- Our digital repository, ARROW@TU Dublin, established in 2008, boasts over 14 million downloads, with over 1.5 million in the past year alone.
- TU Dublin publishes 15 Diamond Open Access journals, showcasing cutting-edge research accessible to all, at no cost to authors or readers. One of these is the International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, indexed in Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals and has had over 500,000 downloads since it launched in 2013.
- We are the only university in Ireland with a dedicated Open Research Support Unit, a collaboration between Research & Innovation and Library Services underscoring our commitment to fostering Open Research.
- TU Dublin is the first higher education institution in Ireland to deliver a CoARA Action Plan, which reflects our steadfast commitment to Open Research.
- We have published two president-endorsed joint statements on Open Research: one with all the Irish technological universities (TU-NET) and one with EUt+ partners.
- We contribute to or lead five projects funded by the National Open Research Forum, advancing and embedding Open Research at a national level.
- As the lead of the Irish pilot in the European project OSTrails, we are advancing the tracking and assessment of Open Research and working to implement a service for writing data management plans for the five technological universities in Ireland.
- Through the EUt+ Open Science task, we are establishing a Diamond OA Academic Press, a Shared Repository, and developing shared Open Science training.
- Co-authored two Open Access games Open Science in Peril and the forthcoming Open Science Wheel of Prosperity.
- We proudly co-chair the EARMA Open Science group and OSCAIL (Open Scholarship Collective Advocates, Innovators, Leaders).
Celebrate with us during International Open Access Week as we continue to pave the way for open research and innovation. You can do that in various ways, including making your works Open Access by adding them to the institutional repository, ARROW, sharing your Open Access works on social media and joining the event on 23 October, ‘Unharnessing Open Research in Ireland’.