The solution - something we should all now be fighting for - is a system in which global science funders are taxed (in a highly progressive manner) to support key publishing services with no transaction costs of any kind. Nobody pays to publish. Nobody pays to read.

“ResearchGate responsible for illegal content on its site, German court rules.” chemistryworld.com/news/researchg…

There’s single + ready to mingle and then there’s the library version…

“Róise and Frank is a genuinely delightful film that should play well across all demographics” 🥃Donald Clarke📽️ #CINE4 irishtimes.com/culture/film/t…

Ireland's National Open Research Forum (NORF) has launched a public consultation on the National Action Plan for Open Research. Comments are invited by 6 May. Details: norf.ie/index.php/2022… Draft plan (pdf): norf.ie/wp-content/upl… Survey: surveymonkey.com/r/NORFNAP #OpenScience

Our recent collaboration with The Library of Trinity College Dublin & Niamh Brennan & Edie Davis is ready online in its entirety. If you want to know more about #publishing research, research #impact, #FAIR data #management, research #metrics or #openaccess find it here bit.ly/3kRbXrB

We've developed a set of #Plan_S and rights retention resources for librarians and research administrators. You can get them here: >> coalition-s.org/resources/righ… #OpenAccess #RetainYourRights #PublishWithPower

The APC Dam Is Breaking jeffpooley.com/2022/08/the-ap…

BREAKING: White House Office of Science & Technology Policy issues landmark new policy guidance setting default to “open” for U.S. taxpayer-funded research #OAintheUSA whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

Excited to see Trinity's Niamh Brennan will speak United Nations headquarters in NYC at the Transforming Education Summit Summit this Saturday on accessing resources to expand education for sustainable development. #SustainableTrinity

Very excited to see that our The Library of Trinity College Dublin colleague Niamh Brennan will be sharing her research expertise at the Transforming Education Summit Summit. Last week she spoke in the Ed Burke to our new Postgrads, this week at the United Nations! #TeamTrinity 🇮🇪 #TransformingEducation un.org/en/transformin…

On today's Intl Day for Universal Access to Information, we are excited to launch the #JournalComparisonService end-user portal to help libraries make informed decisions when negotiating #OpenAccess agreements w/ publishers. coalition-s.org/plan-s-journal… #AccessToInfoDay #Plan_S

Looking forward to the launch of our Assistant Prof Dev Programme 22-23. First Event up is our fab The Library of Trinity College Dublin colleagues Edie Davis and Niamh Brennan with Making the most of the Research Support Systems. TCD Academic staff can book here: bit.ly/TCD_RSS #ReadySetGo

The journal Science to allow immediate sharing of accepted-manuscripts online in repositories in 2023. Final terms to be announced, but a step in the right direction? Policy shift…no embargoes

Transformative agreements concerns? Part of the current movement from paying to access to “paying to say”. How can we improve? Diamond Open Access as a response? Free to access, free to publish #DiamondOA Samuel Moore #OAweek UCC Library UCC Research

All those scholars outraged at the corporate takeover of Twitter, threatening to withdraw, you're gonna love it when you hear about the mass for-profit corporate ownership of academic publishing platforms.

Great strategising and team work in the library last night, as visiting delegates from European research institutes gathered for the Open Access Escape Room session. Trinity College Dublin are hosting the CHARM-EU Annual TORCH Forum. charm-eu.eu/torch-annual-f…

This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs. "The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to…publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models." researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

It’s Let’s Go LEGO time at #CONUL2023