OpenAIRE is a European initiative that fosters open science through a digital infrastructure connecting over 50 partners, including data centers, universities, and libraries. It provides support for open access policies, training, and monitoring research impact, along with tools for data discovery and interlinking services. The platform aims to promote compliance with open access mandates and facilitate collaboration among researchers and institutions across Europe.

1. OpenAIRE in 8 Minutes
Tony Ross-Hellauer
State and University Library,
University of Göttingen
Digital Infrastructures for Research,
Krakow, 28.9.2016
@tonyR_H
@openaire_eu

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OpenAIRE
Dec. 2009 – Nov. 2012
OpenAIREplus
Dec. 2011 – Dec. 2014
OpenAIRE2020
Jan. 2015 – Jun. 2018
Now in our third project phase …
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3. Human
Network
50 Partners from every EU country, and beyond
Data centers, universities, libraries, repositories, legal experts
Digital
Network
… fosters the social and technical links
that enable Open Science in Europe and beyond
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4. Human Infrastructure
• Local support for Europe’s diverse research landscape
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Human support network
• 33 expert nodes all over
Europe to help with:
• OA training and support
• OA policy development
• Technical assistance
• World-wide synergies

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Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz-
ations
Projects
AuthorsDatasets
Publica-
tions
Data
Providers
…
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS systems
An EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
APIs
Trends
Aggregators
Enriching
ServicesOpenAIRE PlatformData Providers

6. Customers
Researchers
Research infrastructures
Organizations (e.g. academic,
research, libraries)
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Funders
Project coordinators
Member States
Data providers: publication repositories, dataset repositories
Publishers
Science
Research
funding
Scholarly
communicationSMEs

7. OPEN ACCESS
PUBLISHING
Researchers
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Promotes the use of institutional repositories as a means to comply to
funder OA mandates
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8. POST-GRANT OA PILOT
(APCs)
Researchers, Libraries, OA Publishers
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Supports the FP7 post grant pilot, providing monitoring for
the APCs.
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9. INTEROPERABILITY:
GUIDELINES & VALIDATOR
Data providers
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• Common standards/best practices for data providers
(Guidelines for literature, data repositories, aggregators, OA
journals, CRIS systems).
• Validator: web service or standalone
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10. HELPDESK
CONSULTING & TRAINING
Researchers, Organizations/libraries,
Funders
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• Open Access implementation
• RDM, DMP tools and best practices.
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11. DISCOVERY/ACCESS SERVICE
Public (all)
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• Provides search and browsing
capabilities over a catalogue of
Europe’s (+) interlinked research
artefacts (literature, research data,
software)
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12. CLAIMS SERVICE FOR
PUBLICATIONS, DATA, etc.
Public (all)
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• Addition of relationships between literature, research data and
projects
• Removal of wrong relationships
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13. MONITORING OA RATIO &
RESEARCH IMPACT
Funders, Organizations, Project coord., Research
Infrastructures
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Dynamic statistics for OA and research impact
Reporting to EC CORDIS
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14. RESEARCH ARTEFACT
DEPOSITION
Researchers
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• OpenAIRE’s Zenodo (hosted by CERN) has become a well
recognized catch-all-repository used for research artifacts from
all over the world
• Community support
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15. RESEARCH
ANALYTICS
Funders, Institutions,
Scholarly Societies
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• Clustering (hidden relationships), correlations, trends (advanced
APIs and visualizations)
• Impact of repository usage
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16. DATA PROVISION
3rd party providers
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OAI-PMH, REST APIs, LOD
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17. INTERLINKING SERVICES
Notification broker for repositories
• (Meta)data and links exchange among different data
providers
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Scholarly link resolution
• Data-publication links exchange (DLI service/SCHOLIX)

18. Governance & sustainability
Project with more than 50 partners
• Data centers, universities, libraries, repositories, legal experts
Governed by General Assembly
• Project steering committee acting as executive board
OpenAIRE will establish itself as a legal entity within next 6-12
months
• Discussions/investigation of possible models ongoing
• Will remain an open, participatory infrastructure
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19. OpenAIRE @ DI4R
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27/9 – Workshop: Design your e-Infrastructure
28/9 – Session: Linked Open Data Services for OpenAIRE
29/9 – Plenary: Digital Infrastructures for Research
30/9 – Session: OpenAIRE Services & Tools, 9-10.30, Venue 2, 3.27b

20. OpenAIRE Helpdesk for all Open Science issues:
https://www.openaire.eu/support/helpdesk
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Portal:
• openaire.eu
Email:
• info@openaire.eu
Open Peer Review
Survey
• soscisurvey.de/OPR/

21. www.openaire.eu
@openaire_eu
facebook.com/groups/openaire
linkedin.com/groups/OpenAIRE-
3893548
Thank you!
ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de
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