RIAN harvests content from Open Access institutional repositories in all seven Irish universities and the DIT. For the first time, Irish research will be made freely available on a worldwide scale.
RIAN is the outcome of a project which was managed by the IUA Librarians’ Group, supported by the IUA, and funded through the Strategic Innovation Fund.
Pictured at the launch l-r: Professor Brian Norton DIT, Martin Curley, Director Intel Labs Europe, Mary Coughlan T.D., Tanaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Professor Tom Collins President of NUI Maynooth.
Press Release – RIAN.ie – Putting Irish Research on the Map
Date: Wednesday 20th October 2010
Venue: Convention Centre Dublin – Spencer Dock, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
Room: 2nd floor EcoCem Room and Wicklow Meeting Room 1
Programme
2.10pm: Opening Address – Tanaiste & Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan T.D
2.25pm: Keynote speech – Martin Curley, Director Intel Labs Europe
3.00pm: Paul Sheehan, Director of Library Services at DCU introduces the RIAN Portal
3.10pm: Delegates move to the adjoining room for demos & Refreshments
Tom Boland CEO HEA, Paul Sheehan Director of Library Services DCU, Prof Brian Norton President DIT, Martin Curley, Director Intel Labs Europe, Tanaiste & Minister for Education and Skills Mary Coughlan, Prof Tom Collins, President NUI Maynooth, Ned Costello CEO IUA and Patrick Cunningham, Chief Scientific Advisor.