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Join us for OHNI’s first FREE in-person event of 2026, 'Craft, Care and Community' oral history heritage event, supported by The Heritage Council. Registration is open to ALL, members and non-members....

DRI is pleased to announce that Repository metadata is now being shared with OpenAIRE, enhancing the discoverability of publications and datasets across Europe and Ireland.  The Digital Repository of ...

Please note this is an online session. Have you ever received emails from journal editors requesting your contributions and wondered if they are legitimate or predatory? This...

‘Significant’ number of institutions predicted to drop deals with main scholarly imprints, leaving journal access much reduced

Join us for an in-person seminar dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the diversity and impact of UCC’s Open Access journals on Tuesday 21 October 2025, during International...

Libfocus is a communal blog with a broad and open-minded take on all subjects relating to library and information science.

Join us for the launch of Navigating Open Research, a new national guide designed to support Early Career Researchers in Ireland. Inspired by similar initiatives in France and the...

Research segment reported to be “key driver” of publisher’s 10 per cent operating profit growth

A curated collection of open access works explores urgent global challenges, from climate grief and AI ethics to inequality, migration, and political representation, offering critical insights for…

This post describes a UCC Library Games week which explored games and interactive exercises for increasing engagement and enhancing teaching and learning.

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

This morning, received an email from Academia.edu informing me that it had created an AI-generated podcast about an article that I authored a few years ago entitled, Representing Law Faculty Scholarly...

On this week’s show, my guest was Luigina Colfi. Luigina is Professor of Human Computer Interaction in the School of Applied Psychology at UCC. Her research explores how digital technologies fit into

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Three years into the boom, it looks like AI is reshaping existing jobs more than creating new ones.

With the agreement, Wiley becomes Perplexity's first education partner, creating new pathways for educational institutions to interact with trusted scholarly resources through AI search.

University College Cork - Head of Content Services vacancy represented by Anderson Quigley executive search firm in London, UK.

The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

Join us for Day 2* of the library games event where we will dive into the world of gamification to explore how it could be used in teaching, learning, and engagement within...

It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses signif...