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Nature 413, 557 (11 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35098226

Ireland weighs up options to buy into European research

Erica Klarreich

Ireland, which has boosted its research budgets in a bid to provide greater backing for innovation, is poised to join some of Europe's biggest science collaborations.A report commissioned from an independent US group recommends that Ireland joins the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) as soon as possible and that it then considers joining the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).