OpenAIRE
An Open Knowledge &
Research Information Infrastructure
Open Belgium
Emilie Hermans
Project Assistant OpenAIRE, UGent
@openaire_eu @openaccess_be

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OpenAccess Policies
“Open access’, has been
a core strategy in the
European Commission
to improve knowledge
circulation and thus
innovation.”
European Commission funded projects
Open Access Mandate
for all peer reviewed articles arising from
project funding.
Open Research Data Pilot
pilot action on open access to research data
in 9 areas.
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OpenAIRE
An Open Knowledge & Research Information Infrastructure.
OpenAIRE: aims for the widest possible
dissemination of, and access to research output.
It offers infrastructure, tools, information and
helpdesk system
FACILITATING
THE OPEN
ACCESS POLICY
OF THE
EUROPEAN
COMMISSION
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OPEN ACCESS
INFRASTRUCTURE
OpenAIRE
How it works
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OpenAIRE as infrastructure
Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiza
(ons
Projects
Authors Datasets
Publica(ons
Data
Providers
…
Monitoring
Repor8ng
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS systems
A mini EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
Zenodo
APIs
Data Providers OpenAIRE PlaCorm Services
Evalua8on
Impact
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OpenAIRE as infrastructure
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APIs
• metadata about projects, publications and
datasets
• http//api.openaire.eu
Interoperable network
• Publications and data linked to project
information
• Metadata guidelines: alignment

OpenAIRE as infrastructure
Integrated scientific information
Metadata, publications, data, funders information,
organizations, authors…
Visibility
Improve the discoverability and reusability of
research output
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OPEN ACCESS
SERVICES
OpenAIRE
What we can do
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OpenAIRE services
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Researchers and Research admins
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Help with reporting
Project page with publications and data at www.
openaire.eu.This is embedded in the EC’s project
portal (Cordis).
OpenAIRE services
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Generate your publication lists
Automatically generate a publication list.
Disseminate your project
• Embed information in own website
• Use info and statistics
• Add publications and data to your project

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• Detailed info
• Link to Cordis
• App box
• List of publications
• Data
• Stats
Visibility
Project page
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Data Providers
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Comply with EC policies
OpenAIRE supports the EC’s H2020 OA
mandate and Open Research data pilot
OpenAIRE services
Visibility
Part of interoperable European OA
network
Enriched content
• Links content to project info
• Statistics
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FUNDERS
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Monitoring
OA evaluation
OpenAIRE services
Aggregated statistics
For funding agency, programme,
scientific area, country, institution…
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Plans for the future
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OpenAIRE services to come
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Linked Open Data
• Standardized LOD content, expose via LOD
APIs, hook to LOD CLOUD
• Beta version: http://beta.lod.openaire.eu
Literature Broker service
• Enrichment: relationships
• Addition: DOIs, OA
• Beta version: June 2016

OPEN ACCESS
NETWORK
OpenAIRE
How we can help
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HELPDESK
Ask a ques8on
FAQs
RESOURCES
OA H2020 guide
Copyright Issues
H2020 factsheets
TRAINING
Webinars
Workshops
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Helpdesk system The National Open Access
Desks (NOADs)
• Network of OA experts
• Support on a national level
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Thank you!
www.openaire.eu
@openaire_eu
Facebook.com/groups/openaire
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/
OpenAIRE3893548
info@openaccess.be
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