responsive nav toggle responsive nav toggle iCRAG logo
  • Home
  • Contact
  • iCRAG Members
LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Instagram
Show menu
Earth System Change Earth Resources Earth Science in Society Platform Technologies
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Vacancies
    • Membership
  • Research
    • Research
    • Research Challenges
      • Research Challenges
      • Earth System Change
        • Earth System Change
        • Climate and Environment
        • Geomarine Environment
        • Connected Waters
        • Environmental Geoscience
      • Earth Resources
        • Earth Resources
        • Offshore Basins
        • Reservoirs and Storage
        • Renewable Energy
        • Mineral Exploration
        • Critical Materials
        • Building Materials
      • Earth Science in Society
        • Earth Science in Society
        • Geohazards and Geoengineering
        • Responsible Decision Making
        • Bio-based Solutions
      • Platform Technologies
        • Platform Technologies
        • Geomodelling
        • Geochemistry
        • Geophysics
        • Geosensing
        • Geodata
    • Project List
    • iCRAG-linked Projects
    • Data
      • Data
      • Lisheen
        • Lisheen
        • Lisheen Data
      • Silvermines
        • Silvermines
        • Silvermines Data
    • Open Access
  • People
    • Meet Our People
    • Executive Management Committee
    • Advisory Committees
      • Governance Committee
      • Industry Advisory Committee
      • Scientific Advisory Committee
    • EDI Committee
  • Industry
    • Industry
    • Partnering with iCRAG
    • Current iCRAG Partners
    • Workshops
      • Peatlands
        • Peatlands Index
        • Programme
        • Registration
        • Venue Information
        • Speaker Profiles
        • Posters
      • Offshore Wind
  • Education & Engagement
    • Education & Engagement
    • The Changing Planet
      • The Changing Planet
      • Purls of Wisdom
        • Purls of Wisdom
        • Purls: About
        • Purls: Get started
        • Purls: How to’s and downloads
        • Purls: Get in touch
      • Poetry and geology
      • Cinema and theatre
      • Inception Horizon
      • A Feat of Clay
      • Artist in Residence
      • Caibleadh
    • Resourcing our Sustainable Future
      • Resourcing our Sustainable Future
      • Primary Level
      • Second Level
        • Second Level
        • JCT STEAM
        • Mining a Sustainable Future
        • Grounded - Explore YOUR World
        • Geography Teacher CPD
      • National Crystal Growing Competition
    • Earth Science in my Life
      • Earth Science in my Life
      • Taking Stock
      • Get into Geoscience
    • Factsheets
    • EDIG
  • Facilities
    • Facilities
    • Infrastructure
  • News & Media
    • News & Media
    • Conferences & Events
    • Event Archive
    • Gallery
    • News Archive
    • Podcasts
  • Sitemap
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Disclaimer
  • ReStoRE
    • Organising committee
    • ReSToRE 2022, 2019 Blogs
    • ReSToRE 2022 Archive
    • ReSToRE 2019 Archive
    • Sign up for updates
  • iCRAG2019
    • Programme
    • Registration
    • Venue information
    • Speaker Profiles
    • Abstracts
    • Posters
  • EDIG
    • Sponsors
    • Survey
    • Conference
    • Contact
    • Resources
  • iCRAG2022
    • Programme
    • Registration
    • Venue Information
    • Speaker Profiles
    • Abstracts
    • Posters
Science Foundation Ireland: a leading SFI research centre

Open Access

  1. Home
  2. Research
  3. Open Access

Open Access Policy

iCRAG Open Access (OA) Policy

As an SFI-funded research centre, iCRAG is committed to implementing SFI’s Open Access research policy. This means that research published by the Centre will be accessible for free and without restrictions. Authors of publications reserve the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

What does this mean for researchers?

All SFI funded research as of 1st January 2021 must be open access. As iCRAG is an SFI funded research centre, all iCRAG funded-research going forward must be available through an open-access source (e.g. Gold open access or Green open access routes). For details of open access publication options, see below.

Why is this being implemented?

SFI is a member of cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders which favours Open Access publication of research. Open Access research policies ensure that scientific research is readily available to all who may need to access it – whether they are members of the public or other researchers. As stated on the coalition S website: “The chain, whereby new scientific discoveries are built on previously established results, can only work optimally if all research results are made openly available to the scientific community.” Open access research, therefore, helps to ensure that research can be access by anyone who needs to.

Open Access resources at iCRAG partner institutions:

UCD: Open Access | UCD Research & Innovation

TCD: Open Access - Scholarly Communication - Library Guides at Trinity College Dublin (tcd.ie)

UCC: CORA UCC Institutional Repository - Open Access - UCC Library at University College Cork

NUIG: Home - Open Access Publishing - LibGuides at National University of Ireland Galway (nuigalway.ie)

DCU: Home - Open Access - LibGuides at Dublin City University

Teagasc: T-Stór - Teagasc Open Access Repository`

 

Useful Resources:

Unpaywall: An open database of 20 million free scholarly articles             

Journal Checker Tool: Plan S Compliance Validator |

Sources: SFI open access policy & FAQs, Coalition S website, DORA website

Gold Open Access

There are two options:

  • Publication in an open-access journal: The procedure is similar to publishing in a regular journal i.e. the article is submitted to the publisher and undergoes peer review. There may be a charge for publication which is paid by the author, however, this is often reimbursed by the funder.
  • Transformative agreements: This involved publishing in a subscription or hybrid journal committed to transitioning to a fully open access journal. In this case, the researcher’s institution pays the publisher for subscription and open access publishing.

Green Open Access

This involves publishing in a traditional journal and depositing a copy of the final version of articles to an institutional repository. No embargo period is allowed, and a Creative Commons licence must be used. The publisher must be informed that the author is retaining their rights to their work.

Institutional Repositories in iCRAG:

UCD: Home | Research Repository UCD

TCD: TARA (tcd.ie)

UCC: CORA UCC Institutional Repository - Open Access - UCC Library at University College Cork

NUIG: Home - Open Access Publishing - LibGuides at National University of Ireland Galway (nuigalway.ie)

MU: What is MURAL? - MURAL Institutional Repository Guide - LibGuides at National University of Ireland, Maynooth

DCU: Frequently Asked Questions - DORAS (dcu.ie)

DIAS: Repository Help - DIAS Access to Institutional Repository

Teagasc: T-Stór - Teagasc Open Access Repository

 

 

our partner logos

Newsletter Signup

iCRAG is funded under the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centres Programme and is co-funded by GSI and industry partners.

  • iCRAG
  • O'Brien Centre for Science (East),
  • University College Dublin,
  • Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
  • P: +353 (0) 171 62939
  • E: info@icrag-centre.org
  • Sitemap
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Disclaimer
  • © 2023 iCRAG
Science Foundation Ireland: SFI