Andrew Simpson

Associate Librarian at RCSI Dublin

[RCSI Library @RCSILibrary]

Join us on Monday 14th August at 5.30pm to celebrate Abraham Colles at 250 and learn how he revolutionised the teaching of Anatomy in Ireland
Book now at: https://t.co/TPIPTiUr5b

[National Open Repositories Ireland @RepositoriesIRE]

📢Calling Irish repository managers, please complete the National Open Repository Survey now🙏
🔗 https://t.co/zwH5086WGG
📅Survey closes 30 May
ℹ️ The survey is open to any open research/scholarly repository based in Ireland further info👉
https://t.co/IrbDM0uldD
@norfireland

[Department of Further and Higher Education @DeptofFHed]

Congratulations @IReLibrary for its continued success in driving open access to Irish research.
Minister @SimonHarrisTD said: “Open Access benefits everyone and is particularly important in helping us meet our ambitions on climate change." #OpenAccessWeek
https://t.co/Ehlx6ksG12

[Dr Jennifer Brennan @drjenbren]

Support Europe’s bold vision for responsible research assessment ⁦@norfireland⁩ https://t.co/rNFzOn7heb

[Dr Danny Kingsley (she/her) @dannykay68]

AGREED! For a group that by definition uses evidence to support positions and questions others’ assertions, the wholehearted embrace of highly questionable assessment tools is unedifying https://t.co/2gipn84Rxd thanks for the article @CameronNeylon

[National Open Research Forum (NORF) Ireland @norfireland]

NORF has released a pre-announcement for an upcoming funding call to address priority actions in the National Action Plan for Open Research. Further details: https://t.co/G2jM36tPZ2 #OpenScience #OpenAccess #FAIRdata

[CONUL Conference @CONULconf]

Niall O'Brien @RCSILibrary explaining how his team have been sharing, and creating information skills instructional content via the @RCSILibrary video streaming platform Panopto, and the importance of using the VLE to re-tool and adapt content.

@CONULconf #CONUL2022

[Cathal McCauley @cathalmccauley]

The content has had 10,000 views and 80,000 minutes - would take 24hrs for 55 days to deliver the same volume of content #CONUL2022

[John Cox @johncoxnuig]

An important step for open research in Ireland and great work by many, including @norfireland and especially @enigmaticocean

[Marshall Breeding @mbreeding]

Major news: Clarivate to acquire ProQuest. Clarivate has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ProQuest for $5.3 billion.

#LibTechNews
#MergersAcquisitions
@ProQuest
@clarivate
@ExLibrisGroup
@iii_Innovative

https://t.co/GwAnWJi2pc

[National Open Research Forum (NORF) Ireland @norfireland]

NORF’s webinar on #OpenAccess to research publications is kicking off now! Great to see the range of representatives from the national research community in attendance. #OpenResearchIE

[National Open Research Forum (NORF) Ireland @norfireland]

NORF’s next webinar on #OpenResearch takes place on 4 May at 1pm. Join us to discuss #OpenAccess developments in Ireland, France & Denmark w/ @openmarin Hanne-Louise Kirkegaard @karenhytteballe @skreilly Niamh Brennan. Read more & register: https://t.co/JfzfVqMH2y #OpenResearchIE

[Mustafa Sultan, MD @MustafaSultan]

Interesting to see @Richard56 (former Editor BMJ) suggest this 15 years ago

It hasn't happened... yet ;) @ExplainPaper

[RCSI Library @RCSILibrary]

Surgical instruments have come a long way from the 1800s. @RCSI_Irl Heritage Collections have over 1500 surgical instruments like this amputation saw from #manufacturing firm Smith & Sheppard in our collections #ExploreYourArchive

RCSI/MI/361/91 - Smith & Sheppard, London

[RCSI Library @RCSILibrary]

Open access agreements with @OxUniPress and @ACSPublications are now available enabling @RCSI_irl authors to publish open access with the publisher without charge. More details on @IReLibrary agreements can be found here https://t.co/i3kVwbkHWi or emailing [email protected]

[National Open Research Forum (NORF) Ireland @norfireland]

NORF is running a open consultation until 7 May 2021 and invites feedback from individuals and institutions from the research community in Ireland. We are seeking comments on recent landscaping work and responses to a survey: https://t.co/4FGmrC828k

#OpenResearchIE #OpenScience

[RCSI Library @RCSILibrary]

RCSI Heritage Collections have been busy preparing plans to commemorate Sir Charles A Cameron on the centenary of his death 27 February 2021. Watch this space for more info in the new year #histmed #exploreyourarchive

[Andrew Simpson @LibAndrew]

https://t.co/HX6NYOc39e

[Jason Sheltzer @JSheltzer]

An amazing *randomized trial* on Twitter+academia:

112 papers were randomly chosen to be shared on twitter by a group with ~58k followers or to not be shared. Papers that were tweeted accumulated 4x more citations compared to non-tweeted papers over 1yr.

https://t.co/82doGP0kha