Griffith College

Griffith Library

Academic Library · Ireland

Griffith Open

https://go.griffith.ie/

Dimphne Ni Bhraonain, Deputy Librarian
Email: dimphne.nibhraonain@griffith.ie

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Griffith Open offers an opportunity to showcase the breadth and depth of the research work undertaken by the staff and students of Griffith College. Through providing a central archive and record of research, we aim to make content as accessible as possible. Institutional repositories ensure a wide dissemination of the work produced, maximize impact, and contribute to the growing body of research literature that is now freely available online.
  • Publishing activities began: 2014
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Educational resources
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Grey literature
  • Multimedia
  • Posters


Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Education
  • Media
  • Law
  • Computing
  • Design

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • contract/license preparation
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • outreach
  • training

Policies