We identify opportunities to improve research enablements and partnerships in areas such as open access, open science, scholarly communications, research data management, research impact, digital repositories, digitisation and digital preservation, metadata, common infrastructures, digital scholarship, skills and competencies development etc.
We support CONUL’s strategic objectives through the identification of collaborative projects and funding opportunities related to research, scholarly communications and digital collections and scholarship; and to coordinate and manage projects, in conjunction with others, where appropriate.
We monitor and maintain a watching brief of key organisations and developments in research, scholarly communications and digital collections policy and advise the CONUL Board in a timely manner of policy initiatives relevant to members.
We connect, liaise, nationally and internationally to ensure that CONUL maintains a national and international presence in the research, scholarly communications and digital collections and digital scholarship communities.
We offer assistance, guidance and support to those working in research, scholarly communications and digital collections in CONUL Libraries.
We organize training for those working in research, scholarly communications and digital collections in CONUL Libraries.
We have convened and lead the Digital Scholarship Network Ireland.
25TH JUNE 2019: PLANNING & DEVELOPING DIGITAL AND OPEN SCHOLARSHIP SERVICES
5th November 2020: Information literacy and scholarly communication: exploring the potential for collaboration
Terms of Reference
Where to Submit Data: CONUL Information Sheet
Online Training Supports for Research Data Management Information Sheet
Digital scholarship services and supports survey report and the survey dataset
Guidance on the intersection of the GDPR and FAIR data sharing
Guidance on negotiating & signing a contract with a scholarly publisher
Chair: Aoife Coffey (UCC)
Deputy Chair: Cillian Joy (UG)
Secretary:
Communications Officer: Ciarán Quinn (MU)
Deputy Comms Officer/Chair of Digital Collections sub-group .: Cillian Joy (NUIG)
Chair of Open Scholarship sub-group: Aoife Coffey (UCC)
Ashling Hayes (UL)
Frances Madden (TUD)
Michelle Dalton (UCD)
Gráinne McCabe (RCSI)
Rebecca Clarke (QUB)
