News

Future events

Focus groups for book publishers World Café for journal publishers at the Trinity Long Room Hub - tbc

16 May, University of Zurich: Open Access Strategies Workshop: Reflecting Actions and Impacts

Niamh Brennan (Publish OA Technical Group Lead) will be representing Publish OA at this workshop where she will be discussing our project as a community-led initiative.

29-30 May, CONUL Conference, Belfast

Ruth Hegarty (project lead) will be representing the project at CONUL’s annual conference and engaging with one of our key set of stakeholders: librarians.

https://conference.conul.ie 

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Current events

Trial of publishing platforms

Publishers - Would You Like to Test Drive an Open Access Publishing Platform?

 Publish OA Ireland co-led by the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin invites you to trial a publishing platform to help us evaluate how different platforms would serve the needs of Ireland’s diverse publishing landscape, we invite you to get in touch (publishoa@ria.ie).

What will it entail? You will be assigned a platform to test and someone to support you through the process. If you’re interested in open access publishing and would like to see how it would affect your workflows in a supported trial, this is for you.

PublishOA.ie | @PublishOAIre | publishoa@ria.ie

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Past events

12 March, Inaugural Annual Conference of the IOAP

Ruth Hegarty took part in a panel discussion with international speakers at the conclusion of this event. 

7 March 2024, Femfest. Mary Immaculate College, Limerick – Irish Women’s Writing Network roundtable: Irish women in publishing

FemFest is a bi-annual festival which celebrates women's achievements as writers, publishers, musicians, etc. This year, the Irish Women's Writing Network is convening a roundtable on women in publishing at which Lucy Hogan will be part of the panel. 

29 February 2024, IOAP/DOAJ Online Event – Demystifying the DOAJ Application 

Jointly hosted with IOAP, this online event guided those trying to get their journals indexed on DOAJ through questions on the DOAJ application process.

https://conul.ie/national-open-publishing-future-directions-and-collective-action/

9 November 2023, Publishing Ireland’s 11^th Annual Trade Day - Academic Publishing and Open Access

Ruth Hegarty (Project Lead & Managing Editor, Publications, Royal Irish Academy) and Lucy Hogan (Project Manager) gave a brief explainer of open access and an overview of the progress of the project over the past year to the publishers in attendance. 

3 November 2023: NORFest Scholarly authorship and open access workshop

The workshop aimed to provide researchers, in particular those from the Arts and Humanities who may not have previously been afforded the opportunity to engage with open access (OA), and other stakeholders, with the space to discuss and comment on what guidance they and their peers need when authoring OA works. Moreover, the workshop aimed, to generate a body of feedback that would be used to revise the project’s draft set of guidelines for open access for scholarly authors (Deliverable 8 of the Publish OA project).

26 July 2023: Webinar from book publishing platform providers

Continuing PublishOA.ie’s evaluation of the feasibility of establishing a national publishing platform in Ireland, platform providers Coko Foundation - Ketida, Manifold and The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) - Open Monograph Press (OMP) provided demos of their systems in this webinar.

Demos were presented by Christina Tromp (Project Manager – Coko Foundation - Ketida); Matthew Gold (English and Digital Humanities, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center), Robin Miller (Librarian and Open Educational Technologist, ​CUNY Graduate Center) and Terence Smyre (Manifold Digital Projects Editor, University of Minnesota Press); and John Willinsky (founder of PKP, Professor Emeritus Stanford - OMP).

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10 July 2023, Webinar: Discovering journal publishing platforms

As part of PublishOA.ie’s mission to evaluate the feasibility of establishing a national publishing platform in Ireland, platform providers Coko Foundation (Kotahi), Janeway and the Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal Systems (PKP/OJS) provided demos of their systems in this webinar. 

20 June to 4 July: Survey of Irish publishers

Many thanks to those who completed this survey - responses are currently being reviewed.

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16 June 2023: Publication of the Directory of Irish Publishers

First digital directory of Irish publishers and Literature Ireland translation series launched; MoLI wins award – The Irish Times

First digital Directory of Irish Publishers launches on Bloomsday 2023 - Books Ireland (booksirelandmagazine.com)

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25 April 2023, Webinar: Learning from national Open Access platforms

Existing national OA platforms have been successful in helping publishers comply with OA requirements and have agreed to share their experiences through this webinar. The presentations will cover the creation of the platforms, principles adhered to, technical requirements, business models used to sustain these platforms and any lessons learnt.

Panelists include Jan Willem Wijnen (openjournals.nl) and Antti-Jussi Nygård and Sami Syrjämäki (journal.fi). Openjournals.nl is a diamond open access platform for scientific journals, which was launched in 2021. It now hosts 24 journals with a new journal being added almost every month. Journal.fi is a journal management and publishing service provided by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. It features 130 Finnish scholarly journals.

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8 March 2023, Publishing Ireland Board Meeting – PublishOA.ie: Presentation to Publishing Ireland

Following Publishing Ireland’s board meeting on 8 March 2023, Lucy Hogan (Project Manager) gave an overview of the project, now renamed PublishOA.ie, and some background on Open Access and the latest government policy with regard to public funding of publishers. She encouraged publishers to engage with the project and outlined the mechanisms of engagement that the project will use (survey, focus groups, workshops, World Café).

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11 November 2022, Publishing Ireland’s 10^th Annual Trade Day - A National Publishing Platform for Ireland

At Publishing Ireland’s Trade Day on 11 November 2022, Ruth Hegarty (Project Lead & Managing Editor, Publications, Royal Irish Academy) introduced the newly established project – initially titled Action 3: Open Access Transition Programme - to publishers in attendance. Ruth shared details of National Open Research Forum, its aim and its projects and shared plans for a national publishing platform for Ireland.