Presentation by Tony Ross-Hellauer at the DIR4 conference on Introduction to European einfrastructures session.

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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