The Irish Government's National Principles for Open Access Policy Statement is based on the principles that the outputs from publicly-funded research should be publicly available to researchers and to potential users in education, business, charitable and public sectors, and to the general public.
... a policy adopted by a research funder, research institution,or government which requires researchers—usually university faculty or research staff and/or research grant recipients—to make their published, peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers open access either by:
For information on Horizon 2020 and Open Science in Europe see:
Most Irish funding bodies now have an Open Access Mandate or position statement.
These mandates support making publicly funded research freely accessible in an open access repository:
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