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Navigating Open Research - A guide for early career researchers
UCCRSA is proud to promote a new guide to open research called Navigating Open Research - A guide for early career researchers.
This guide is designed to support early career researchers in navigating the principles and practices of open research, including open access publishing, data sharing, and responsible research metrics. It offers practical advice, useful resources, step by step checklist and insights into how open research can enhance visibility, collaboration, and impact.
The guide was developed as part of a collaborative project led by one of our own library staff Aoife Coffey in collaboration with CONUL - the consortium of national and university libraries, Elizabeth Noonan, Senior Library Assistant UCC Library and researchers and research support staff across Ireland.
We encourage all staff—especially those involved in research supervision, mentoring, or training—to explore the guide and share it with your teams and students. It’s available as an open educational resource from our institutional repository CORA, is intended to foster a culture of openness and transparency across our research community and licensed so that it can be shared and adapted freely.
Access the guide here: https://doi.org/10.33178/10468/17586
A webinar about the guide and how it was co-developed with the research community is available here
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how to use the guide or how the library can support open research in your area, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Aoife Coffey - aoife.coffey@ucc.ie