HSE Press
Release
23rd October
2013
Lenus Irish Health Repository included
into RIAN web-based Open Access portal
It has been announced
that LENUS has been included as a participating repository in RIAN, the national
open access portal which collates the research output of ten higher education
repositories in Ireland.
Since its establishment by the HSE’s Regional Library and Information Service in 2009, Lenus has championed and promoted the dissemination of health service research and its availability in RIAN is a major development in Irish open access publishing.
Since its establishment by the HSE’s Regional Library and Information Service in 2009, Lenus has championed and promoted the dissemination of health service research and its availability in RIAN is a major development in Irish open access publishing.
RIAN is a
web-based Open Access portal that harvests and displays the content of the
repositories of the seven universities and the DIT in Ireland. Commenting on
the inclusion of LENUS in this portal , Bennery Rickard, HSE’s Regional
Library and Information Service commented that Ireland
was now at the forefront of the Open Access movement . “RIAN is among the first
wave of national open access portals in the world and it is very exciting that
LENUS has been included.” The portal will demonstrate the impact of research to
potential investors and funders, who recognise the value of wider research
dissemination.
This is a
very welcome development and a great achievement as Lenus is one of the first
non university repositories to be included in the RIAN Portal. It raises the profile
of researchers working in the health services and puts health service research
into a national context with the academic and scientific research being carried
out by third level institutions, while allowing research funders to accurately
gauge the results and impact of their funding.
It also provides a
Europe-wide platform for Irish health service research, through the forthcoming
inclusion of RIAN in the EU’s OpenAIRE portal and boosts the profile of the
HSE’s research programme and the reputations of its
researchers.
LENUS is
Ireland’s most comprehensive online repository of health-related reports,
research and official publications. Spanning a period from the 1960s to the
present day, LENUS makes available a wealth of material from former Irish health
boards, the Health Service Executive, the Department of Health and Children and
many other organisations active in the field of Irish health.
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Notes to
Editors:
RIAN is the outcome
of a sectoral higher education project supported by the Irish Government's
'Strategic Innovation Fund'. Project planning was carried out by the seven Irish
university libraries, DCU, NUIG, NUIM, TCD, UCC, UCD, UL and was supported by the Irish
Universities Association (IUA).
The project aim is to
harvest to one portal the contents of the Institutional Repositories of the
seven university libraries, in order to make Irish research material more freely
accessible, and to increase the research profiles of individual researchers and
their institutions. It is intended to extend the harvest to other Irish research
institutions as RIAN develops.
The aggregation of
this content will have significant benefits. It will be the primary source for
Irish Open Access research publications. Jointly agreed metadata standards will
facilitate more accurate searching and retrieval. The aggregated content will
make further value-added features, such as statistical analysis, possible.
RIAN will allow other agencies, for example DRIVER, to harvest normalised metadata for better search
results.
People
working in the health sector who benefit from Open Access initiatives include:
health professionals, public health doctors, managers, policy makers,
researchers, and information workers from organisations such as the Health
Service Executive; Department of Health; Voluntary health sector, Irish health
agencies, academic health sector.
For more
information see www.openaccessweek.org ;
http://rian.ie ; www.lenus.ie
