Healthcare services provider Health Service Executive (HSE), Ireland, has launched LENUS, a comprehensive online repository of health-related reports, research and official publications. Built on BioMed Central's 'Open Repository' system, LENUS makes available a wealth of material from former Irish health boards, the Health Service Executive, the Department of Health and Children and many other organisations active in Irish healthcare.
With this launch, HSE will now be able to provide a personalised in-house repository that maximises the distribution of its research and publications. LENUS embraces the 'open access' movement by allowing authors to submit their original research directly to the repository. Librarians are also encouraged to submit electronic documents, including articles, pre-prints, monographs, reports, movies and databases. As the only Irish resource of its kind, LENUS is a vitally important facility for medical professionals, policy-makers, academics, librarians, students and the general public.
The HSE is one of 16 organsations globally that have adopted Open Repository since its inception. Open Repository is built upon the latest version of DSpace, an open-source solution for accessing, managing and preserving scholarly material.
