OpenAIRE2020 is an Open Access (OA) infrastructure for research which supports open scholarly communication and access to the research output of European funded projects. With over five years experience of supporting the European Commission’s OA policies, OpenAIRE now has a key role in supporting the EC’s Horizon 2020 Open Data Pilot. OpenAIRE’s community network works to gather research outputs, highlight the OA mandate, and advance open access initiatives at national levels. It has National Open Access Desks in over 30 countries, and operates a European Helpdesk system for all matters concerning open access, copyright and repository interoperability. At the same time, OpenAIRE harvests metadata information from a network of Open Access repositories, data repositories, aggregators and OA journals. It then enriches this metadata by linking people, publications, datasets, projects and funding streams. This interlinked information – which currently encompasses more than 13 million publications and 12 thousand datasets from more than 6 thousand data sources – helps optimise the research process, increasing research visibility, facilitating data sharing and reuse and enabling the monitoring of research impact. This presentation will outline how an infrastructure like OpenAIRE can help turn OA policy into successful implementation.

1. Infrastructure for the
Data Revolution
How OpenAIRE supports the EC’s Open
Access and Open Data Policies
Tony Ross-Hellauer, State and University Library Göttingen
Alen Vodopijevec, Institut Ruđer Bošković

2. Science set free.
Innovation unlocked.
Knowledge open for all.
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3. EC Open Access Mandate
Progression
FP7 OA Pilot (2008)
• Grant agreement SC39
• 20% programme areas
• Deposit in Repositories
• APCs paid during project
• ERC OA Guidelines
Horizon 2020 (2015)
• All grant agreements
• 100% programme areas
• Deposit in Repositories
• APCs paid during & after project
• Open Data Pilot (default from 2017)
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4. EC Open Research Data Pilot
• Started beginning of 2015
• A limited, voluntary pilot (initially 7 programme areas)
• Easy opt-out and strict safeguards
• Participating projects must:
• Keep a data management plan, to be updated at regular intervals
• Deposit in an open access repository:
• the data, including associated metadata, needed to validate the results
presented in scientific publications as soon as possible;
• other data, including associated metadata, as specified and within the
deadlines laid down in the data management plan

5. Horizon 2020
Open Data by Default from 2017
Just announced!

6. 6
OpenAIRE
Dec. 2009 – Nov. 2012
OpenAIREplus
Dec. 2011 – Dec. 2014
OpenAIRE2020
Jan. 2015 – Jun. 2018
Now in our third project phase …

7. • Support the Universal OA mandate for all projects
• Run post-grant funding pilot for OA publications
• Support the Open Data Pilot
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+ Research and development into new trends in
scholarly communication
• Linked Open Data
• Data Citation
• Literature-Data Integration
• Legal issues in Open Data
• Metrics for Open Access
• Open Peer Review
New in
OpenAIRE2020

8. 8
Human
Network
50 Partners from every EU country, and beyond
Data centres, universities, libraries, repositories
Digital
Network
OpenAIRE fosters the social and technical links
that enable Open Science in Europe and beyond.

9. 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 alignment
• Technical assistance
• Outreach to international
community via COAR

10. OpenAIRE Training & Support Materials
• Briefing papers, factsheets,
webinars, workshops, FAQs
• Information on:
• Open Research Data Pilot
• Creating a DMP
• Selecting a data repository
• https://www.openaire.eu/opendatapilot
• https://www.openaire.eu/support

11. Technical Infrastructure
Literature
Repositories
OA Journals
Funding Info
Validation
Cleaning
De-duplicating
Inferring
Linking
Organiz
-ations
Projects
AuthorsDatasets
Publicat
ions
Data
Providers
Monitoring
Reporting
Evaluation
Impact
Classification
Clustering
Analysis
CRIS
systems
A mini EU-CRIS system
Data
Repositories
Metadata
Full text
Usage data
Discovery
Crowdsourcing
Zenodo
APIs
Data Providers OpenAIRE Platform Services

12. Becoming an OpenAIRE data provider
1.Register your repository in re3data
a. hhttp://www.re3data.org/
2.Test compatibility with OpenAIRE
a. Guidelines for data archives/repositories which aim to help you export
content in a DataCite compatible form.
b.https://guidelines.openaire.eu
c. http://validator.openaire.eu/
3.Add your repository in OpenAIRE
a. Through “validator” service

13. OpenAIRE repository compliance
Application Profile Overview
• OAI-PMH v2.0
• Mandatory and optional fields
• Identifier / IdentifierType
• Creator
• Title
• Publisher
• PublicationYear
• Date / DateType
• Other “mandatory where applicable”, recommended and optional fields
• https://guidelines.openaire.eu/en/latest/data/index.html

14. Software Support
OpenAIRE Plugins
• EPrints
• DSpace
• Invenio (Zenodo)
OAI-PMH enabled
• Most repository software applications and discovery tools
• eg. Nesstar server
http://www.nesstar.com/software/oai_pmh_server.html

18. Future Work
• BROKERING service where you will be able to register and get
notifications for any updates/differences on the content you provide to us
• Know the impact of your content - service that will gather usage data from
local repositories and will analyse them as a step towards the
establishment of article level metrics.
• Coming soon – Repository Manager Dashboard a single interface to
manage all these services

19. Help & Support
National Open Access Desks
• Open Access representatives and liaisons in all EU member
states.
https://www.openaire.eu/contact-noads
• https://www.openaire.eu
• info@openaire.eu

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21. www.openaire.eu
@openaire_eu
facebook.com/groups/openaire
linkedin.com/groups/OpenAIRE-
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Thank you!
National Open Access Desks: https://www.openaire.eu/contact-noads
ross-hellauer@sub.uni-goettingen.de
alen@irb.hr
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