[Open-access] Ireland: The Transition to Open Access - case study for PASTEUR4OA

[Marieke Guy]

Dear all,

An Open Knowledge case study on Ireland for the PASTEUR4OA Project 
<http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/> is now available online:
http://access.okfn.org/2015/01/27/ireland-the-transition-to-open-access/

    Ireland's transition to Open Access has been iterative and
    substantive, with government bodies and funding agencies adopting
    Open Access policies over a period of several years. These policies
    have been developed through consensus building amongst different
    stakeholders and culminated in the establishment of the National
    Steering Committee on Open Access in 2012. The committee had
    representation from all Irish funding agencies and in October 2012
    it successfully formulated the 'National Principles for Open Access
    Policy Statement', which outlines a framework for Open Access in
    Ireland. 

    The principles, which have placed Ireland in an exemplar position in
    Europe, consist of a green way mandate and encouragement publishing
    in Gold Open Access journals. The policy is supported by all Irish
    funders and uses existing infrastructure including the use of RIAN,
    a national portal that harvests content from Institutional
    Repositories of the Irish seven university libraries. The framework
    includes a set of common principles, general principles and other
    supporting statements on infrastructure, advocacy, coordination and
    exploiting Open Access.

- See more at: 
http://access.okfn.org/2015/01/27/ireland-the-transition-to-open-access/#sthash.Y8R8fJRQ.dpuf
"/Ireland's transition to Open Access has been iterative and 
substantive, with government bodies and funding agencies adopting Open 
Access policies over a period of several years. These policies have been 
developed through consensus building amongst different stakeholders and 
culminated in the establishment of the National Steering Committee on 
Open Access in 2012. The committee had representation from all Irish 
funding agencies and in October 2012 it successfully formulated the 
'National Principles for Open Access Policy Statement', which outlines a 
framework for Open Access in Ireland. /"

The case study was written by Stuart Dempster at Dempster Associates for 
Open Knowledge.

Marieke
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