Event Title

Responsible Open Access and Impact

Presenter Information

Niamh Brennan, Programme Manager, Research Informatics, Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Presentation Type

Recorded Video

Location

Munster Technological University

Start Date

18-5-2022 11:30 AM

End Date

18-5-2022 12:10 PM

Description

Niamh Brennan speaks to the role dissemination - in particular Open Access - has in ensuring and upholding research integrity in scholarly publishing.

Comments

Ms Niamh Brennan, Research Informatics, Ussher Library, Trinity College Dublin

Niamh Brennan is Programme Manager Research Informatics in Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. She works on research reporting, evaluation, and impact. She is responsible for the management of Trinity's CRIS (Current Research Information System) and its integrated institutional repository, TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive). She is co-chair of the National Open Access Research Forum (NORF) Open Access Publications Working Group and was co-author & editor of Ireland’s ‘National Framework on the Transition to an Open Research Environment’ (2019). Niamh managed Ireland’s National Open Access Desk in TCD as Irish partner in OpenAIRE-Advance (Horizon2020).

She is a member of the management councils of two Irish journals in economics and social sciences and is project manager of TCD’s SOAPbox (Student Open Access Publishing Project). She was an elected member of the board of SPARC-Europe (2013-2015) and a member of the European Commission OSPP Expert Group on Skills for Open Science. Niamh coordinated the National Research Data Project (IUA/HEA) and produced the National Bibliometrics Report (2012 and 2017) under contract to the HEA for the National Research Prioritisation Exercise.

She is chair of the TU Dublin (Technological University Dublin) Open Research Advisory Group. She is course coordinator of Trinity’s online Structured PhD Module ‘Research Integrity and Impact in an Open Scholarship Era’, funded under the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning SATLE programme.

Niamh is interested in supporting Irish researchers and researchers in the Global South, in equitable open research, in scholar-led publishing and research dissemination and in developing better ways to report on research (especially in arts, humanities and social sciences).

Recommended Citation

Brennan, Niamh, "Responsible Open Access and Impact" (2022). Research Integrity @ MTU. 3.
https://sword.cit.ie/rimtu/2022/2022/3