Ireland's central source for Open Access health research

Lenus is the leading source for Irish research in health and social care.  The Lenus collections include peer reviewed journal articles, grey literature, dissertations, reports and conference presentations. Lenus contains the publications of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) and the collected research output of over 130 health organisations past and present, all freely accessible.

Submit Your Research to Lenus 

If you are an Irish researcher or have conducted research in an Irish institution or health organisation, you can add your published research to Lenus. Submitted articles must be available in Open Access format or the publisher's policy must permit author self archiving. Advice on Open Access publishing and publishers' policies is available on the 'Open Access Publishing Guide' and 'Publishers' policies' pages available on the left-hand menu.     

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HSE Open Access Research Awards 2024 - Enter Now

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the first HSE Open Access Research Awards.

Since their inauguration in 2014, the awards have celebrated practitioners and researchers working across health and social care disciplines in Ireland who are publishing and making their research available in an Open Access format.

The awards are judged across a number of categories, and for 2024 the categories are unchanged:

Acute Care and Hospitals

Community and Social Care

Mental Health and Disabilities

Integrated Services

Entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges with research experience. There will be a prize for each category and an overall winner will also be selected, representing the best of all submissions received.

Once again, there will be a special Innovation prize to recognise outstanding developments in practice or service delivery.

Winners will receive a custom piece of glassware celebrating their achievement. 

Criteria for Entry

Entries must fulfil the following criteria:

• The research must have been published within the two years (24 months) prior to the closing date
• The research must be available in full text in an Open Access forum (and added to the Lenus repository as a condition of entry)
• At least one author must be working for or on behalf of the Irish health services

Entries close on Friday October 25th 2024 and the winners will be announced in early December. For more information, email lenus@hse.ie.   

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More information available here

Follow updates on the awards on the @hselibrary and @lenushse accounts or follow #HSEOAAwards24

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