EOLAS is the online repository for the Irish Further Education and Training (FET) sector maintained by the Digital Library of Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI). It aims to bring together, preserve, and provide free access to research and other output of ETBI and the 16 ETBs. Content includes but is not limited to articles, presentations, conference papers, reports and more.
A repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual and other output of an institution (or sector).
EOLAS aims to bring together a wide range of content produced by the Irish FET sector. Content can include but is not limited to:
There are many benefits to submitting work to EOLAS. EOLAS collects, preserves and disseminates the output of ETB FET sector staff, hosting where possible the full-text of the work or otherwise linking to it if not. It is searchable by subject and will be organised such that the work of each ETB will be stored together in mini-repositories (also called communities within EOLAS).
Benefits of EOLAS include:
