Scholarly Communication Issues

Dublin City University announced the unveiling of its new institutional repository, DORAS (DCU Online Research Access Service), on Tuesday, November 4th, according to a news release on the DCU website. DORAS is the first step in the HEA's (Higher Education Authority) plan for every university in Ireland to have institutional repositories. The final project will result in a national portal to bring together all university-sponsored scholarly output in the nation.

Since DORAS opened in September, there have been nearly 6,000 full-text downloads. In the month of October alone, DORAS averaged over 80 downloads per day. To locate information in DORAS, one can browse by faculties and centres [sic], subject, author, year, or publication type.

--Amelia Evans