viXra.org: An Alternative Archive Of e-Prints In Science And Mathematics

A physicist in the UK has set up a new website for sharing preprints following criticisms about the way that the popular arXiv.org preprint server is moderated. Called viXra.org, which is the reverse of arXiv, the rival server — unlike arXiv — places no restrictions on the sorts of papers that can be posted. "This is an experiment to find out what kind of stuff is not managing to get into the arXiv, as well as being a serious archive for people to put their research in," says Philip Gibbs, an independent physicist based in the UK and creator of viXra

See also http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39845

The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) has recently launched their repository (LENUS) running on Open Repository

The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) has recently launched their repository (LENUS) running on Open Repository, BioMed Central's hosted repository service. A case study is now available that explores the journey HSE took when setting up their
repository. Deciding how to build and host a repository and who to partner with can be a major challenge for organizations and this new case study aims to assist in this process by sharing the experiences of HSE.

Irish Open Access model for research a world-leader

Open Access leads the way in promoting academic research
From the Irish Times, 2009-08-07

University of Leicester adopts OA mandate

The University of Leciester, UK, following a decision ratified by Senate on 27 May 2009, has joined a growing number of UK institutions, including UCL, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Southampton, in adopting an open access mandate for research publications.

Open access means that a research publication can be freely accessed by anyone using an internet connection.

Academics are now required to submit their research publications to both the open access web-based Leicester Research Archive (LRA) and the internal central research publications database (RED). The LRA includes full text versions of publications where publishers' terms allow it (or the bibliographic reference otherwise); RED includes only bibliographic references.

McCarthy report now available in UCD Institutional Repository

You may be interested to know that the ‘Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes’ has now been archived in the UCD Institutional Repository. Colm McCarthy is participating in the EU Economists Online project and for completeness sake we have added the report to his list of works. Here is the permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1257

Colm Mccarthy research output can be seen here

An Bord Snip Nua report is out -
http://www.finance.gov.ie/documents/pressreleases/2009/bl100vol1.pdf


Mr Colm McCarthy, School of Economics, University College Dublin, was appointed as
member and Chair of the Special Group - read some of his other research output in the UCD Institutional Repository

NEEO network extends its reach

UCD is a member of the NEEO consortium of top economics faculty in Europe. The group is now extending its reach and recently Columbia joined the group- read about that in this blog entry