More visibility and open access for DIT research

Here is a very interesting development in open access, which will also raise the profile of DIT's research output.

RIAN, Ireland's new single-access national portal for open access to Irish research, is now live. RIAN is a compilation of content "harvested" from the institutional repositories of the major Irish third-level institutions. This includes contents of DIT's Arrow repository, which already carries the full texts of our postgraduate theses and research publications.

This repository-network should have a number of good impacts for DIT. Not only will it give us more access to the output of other Irish centres of learning, but it will also increase the visibility of the research done here. This will have the effect both of showcasing DITs research output and of making it more accessible to the larger research community. An increased citation count for DIT sources is therefore also to be expected. RIAN also includes an impressive statistical analysis of the output of the 8 institutions attached to it.

Http://www.rian.ie