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Paul Ayris obituary Other lives: Library leader at UCL committed to the movement for open science

Touching tribute to Paul Ayris. The UK open research community owes him a great debt.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Cover matter: Navigating Open Research A Guide for Early Career Researchers From CONUL - consortium of national and university libraries #openResearch #irishResearch

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

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Two women standing beside a lectern in front of a screen that reads Cataloguing Early Printed Books at DCU

in it with the title Erasmus week, welcome Ireland, CONUL #Erasmus25

We enjoyed showing the #erasmusdub25 group around @dculibrary.bsky.social today. We met for a morning of illuminating talks from DCU Library, Kaunas University of Technology Library and Hotelschool The Hague staff, followed by a tour of Cregan Library with @orlanicaodha.bsky.social.

A great time was had at last evening's reception in MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland) - presentations, tours, good chats and a small beverage. The summer gardens put on a good show 😍 #ErasmusDub2025 #libraries #library #librarian #Europe #Erasmus

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An issue of @dculibrary.bsky.social's Liblink publication from 1998 makes a surprise appearance during today's #Conul25 keynote speech from @Princeton's University Librarian. Anne Jarvis worked in DCU Library before she left Ireland in 2000.

Best of luck to our colleagues Gwendolyn O'Connor and Orla Nic Aodha today at #CONUL25. They will be presenting a parallel paper about the Human Library, so if you're attending the conference don't miss it!

We are pleased to announce the publication of the new IReL Principles for Negotiations. In light of evolving policy and emerging international consensus, the IReL Advisory Committee has reviewed and redrafted these principles. You can read the full document here: irel.ie/wp-content/u...

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Sarah Gilmartin @dublincityuni.bsky.social Writer-in-Residence announces Telescreen Cell by Sam as the winner of the DCU Library Creative Writing Competition! A huge thanks to all the writers, tutors and library staff who make our annual competition such a joyous event.

Pics: @kobpix.bsky.social

#NORFest25 Ireland's National Open Research Festival returns
6–7 November @ria.ie and they are now looking for submissions: norf.ie/irelands-nat...

CONUL Regulatory Affairs (featuring our Associate Director, Special Collections & Archives, David Meehan) has just published a timely and comprehensive paper on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on HE, research and libraries. bit.ly/4cY0dhm
@dublincityuni.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social

ENGAGED is about more than research. It’s building a knowledge commons that benefits all. Your participation is about helping to increase research’s potential as a global public good. https://www.tcd.ie/civicengagement/engaged/ @tcddublin.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social #OpenResearch #PublicEngagement

ENGAGED is about more than research. It’s building a knowledge commons that benefits all. Your participation is about helping to increase research’s potential as a global public good.
www.tcd.ie/civicengagem...
@tcddublin.bsky.social
@dublincityuni.bsky.social
#OpenResearch #PublicEngagement

Great insights from Ronan Cox on building a Libkey Community of Practice at DCU - practical, relevant, and full of takeaways! #LIRSeminar2025

How well is Ireland adapting to climate risk? What pollutants are we breathing in?
Hear answers to these questions and more at the second event in the DCU Futurology series at the @ria.ie tomorrow, Tuesday 11th March.
Register here: launch.dcu.ie/4bnytBL

Final call to all Postgraduate Research Students at DCU! @studentsurveyirl.bsky.social will close on Tuesday, 25th February. You will be in with a chance of winning some great prizes. Check your DCU email to access the survey or go to pgrstudentsurvey.ie

Extension: Call for papers deadline has now been extended to Sunday 23rd February.
Now is your time to share your thoughts and enthusiasm with your colleagues. We look forward to receiving your submission!. #extension #callforpapers

Text on navy background. Text reads: We Are Hiring! 1 x Archivist (Digital) Special Collections & Archives 1 x Research Data Librarian Closing date for applicants 07/02/2025

Come work with us! We are currently seeking applicants for the following vacancies:
Archivist (Digital) Special Collections & Archives (Job Ref: 002834)
Research Data Librarian (Job Ref: 002835)
Closing date 07/02/25. Check the website for more info: bit.ly/3yQI7Op

#LibraryJobs #JobFairy

A preprint by @rupertgatti.bsky.social, Pierre Mounier, and myself on the meaning of #DiamondOpenAccess beyond 'no fee'. zenodo.org/records/1444...

Marsh's Library, St. Patrick's Close, Dublin

Flora H. Mitchell  (1890-1973)

Watercolour, pen and ink

©️ Artist's estate / Private Collection

#Dublin #artofDublin #femaleartists #art #DublinHistory #womenartists #DublinHistory #ireland

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Lovely Cregan Library - here are two of our favourite study spots - what are yours? @dcuioe.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social @dcuioe.bsky.social #studyspots #librarylife #dculibrary

Staff from our public services and outreach team and @dublincityuni.bsky.social Librarian @mcojo.bsky.social are attending the #THEAwards in Birmingham tonight. Don't they scrub up well!

Powerful images Mark. I hope you’re doing well. Giving blood is so important (if you can). #giveblood

The cover of "urban history volume 51 part 3 august 2024" published by cambridge university press.

A fascinating new Urban History article by Dr Daithí Ó Corráin (DCU School of History and Geography) and Dr Joe Rodgers (DCU Library) explores the destruction & rebuilding of Dublin's O'Connell Street following the Irish civil war, 1922-1933. bit.ly/3Zn6uhf @joerodgers1969.bsky.social

Does Open Access Foster Interdisciplinary Citation? Decomposing Open Access Citation Advantage The existence of an open access (OA) citation advantage, that is, whether OA increases citations, has been a topic of interest for many years. Although numerous previous studies have focused on whethe...

New study: " #OpenAccess increases both interdisciplinary and within-discipline citations in many fields and increases only interdisciplinary citations in chemistry, computer science, and clinical medicine."
arxiv.org/abs/2411.14653

#OACA #OpenAccessCitationAdvantage

We're now on Bluesky! Follow us here for all the latest from Dublin City University! #WeAreDCU

We are very pleased to announce that IReL, a consortium of Irish research libraries, and the OBC now have an agreement: irel.ie/irel-and-ope...

deck.blue Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout

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Perhaps folks would like to see a work in progress I've undertaken with folks all across European Research Libraries. We're creating a set of gentle introductions for library professionals to Digital Scholarship and Data Science Essentials through Topic Guides. libereurope.github.io/ds-essentials/

Open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) of gold and hybrid journals published by Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, PLOS, Springer-Nature and Wiley 2019-2023 This open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) was produced from the price lists of six large scholarly publishers (Elsevier, Fronti...

Another great collaboration with colleagues at the #ScholCommLab (none of whom seem to be here yet): Stef, Juan, Leigh-Ann, Maddie, and Nina.

Our open dataset of >36,000 #APCs from 8,712 journals by six publishers, 2019-2023, is available now for you to explore and use at doi.org/10.7910/DVN/....

Yes, There Is a TweetDeck for Bluesky Third-party Bluesky apps can do things that the official ones don't, such as add bookmarks, schedule posts, and display a multi-column view.

Not here long Cathal, just found this: lifehacker.com/tech/yes-the...