The Digital Repository of Ireland is a national, trusted digital repository for social science and humanities data, with the mission of linking, preserving, and providing access to Ireland’s social and cultural heritage. Based on a user-centred approach to building the repository, it has a strong focus on research and development, requirements planning, and policy building.

Ever wondered what workflows actually enable the sharing and resuse of data? A research study executed by the OpenAIRE NOAD Austria focuses on the processes that enable sharing and the reuse of research data in the academic environment and sheds light on three important actors in the whole process: data creators, repositories and downstream users.

 

The Italian Ministry of Education University and Research (MIUR) is harmonising its open access requirements with the Horizon 2020 open access mandate: open access to scientific publications and open access to research data. Its first call for young researchers for 2014 – SIR includes a clause mandating open access for publications and data.

The Research Council of Norway is making the most recent findings in social science and the humanities easily accessible to all. It provides funding for the publication of 40 national journals within social science and the humanities. Starting in 2017,  journals will be required to employ Open Access publishing in order to qualify for financial support.