Liaison with other libraries and organizations

There is a strong collaborative ethos among the Irish university libraries, and UCD Library participates in a number of collaborative initiatives and projects. These include IReL 19 (the Irish e-Library, an initiative funded by the Higher Education Authority 20 and Science Foundation Ireland to provide a world-class portfolio of e-journals to support research), IRIS (a company which manages the IReL initiative and which also aims to provide a virtual union catalogue of the holdings of the Irish university libraries), ALCID 21 (a reciprocal access scheme for academic staff and postgraduate research students), ANLTC (the Academic and National Library Training Co-operative)22, which provides a regular staff training and development programme, and the Open Access to Research Output Project, funded through the Higher Education Authority’s Strategic Innovation Fund 23 to provide e-repositories in each university, and a national portal, for open-access research publications. Internationally, the Library has participated in the past in a number of research projects funded through the European Commission's FRAMEWORK Programmes, and, as a member of the NEREUS Consortium 24, is currently participating in the NEEO (Network of European Economists Online) 25 project, funded by the eContentplus Programme, to establish a multilingual portal to the full-text research outputs of 500 top researchers in the partner institutions. UCD Library was a partner with the Library of the Queen’s University of Belfast in the PADDI (Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland) project and both libraries continue to jointly operate the PADDI Database service. UCD Library is an institutional member of SCONUL, CONUL26, IATUL27, IFLA and LIBER28.