OpenAIRE is a 36-month, FP7-funded project with 38 partners from 27 EU member states and Norway. It aims to establish an electronic infrastructure and support mechanisms to identify, deposit, access, and monitor FP7 and ERC funded articles. All deposited articles will be freely accessible worldwide through a new portal. OpenAIRE will establish a helpdesk system and liaison offices across Europe to support researchers in depositing publications. It will also operate an e-infrastructure populated with FP7-funded research using a repository to host publications with no natural repository association. OpenAIRE will provide monitoring, statistics, and a portal to access publications and services. It will also explore scientific data management with various subject communities.

1. OpenAIRE:
Open Access Infrastructure for
Research in Europe
Eloy Rodrigues
Universidade do Minho
eloy@sdum.uminho.pt

2. • New FP7 funded project, resulting from the
ERC OA policy and European Comission “Open
Access Pilot”
• Start date: December, 1, 2009
• Duration: 36 months
• 38 partners from 27 member states + Norway
OpenAIRE

3. • Deliver “an electronic infrastructure and supporting
mechanisms for the
identification, deposition, access, and monitoring of
FP7 and ERC funded articles”
• Additionally, offer “a special repository for articles
that can be stored neither in institutional nor in
subject-based/thematic repositories”.
• All deposited articles will be visible and freely
accessible worldwide through a new portal to the
products of EU-funded research, built as part of this
project.
Main goals

4. 1. Building Support Structures for Researchers in
Depositing FP7 Research Publications (Networking)
2. Establishment and Operation of the OpenAIRE e-
Infrastructure for Peer-Reviewed Articles and Other
forms of Scientific Results (Service)
3. Exploration of and experimentation with Scientific Data
Management Services (Research)
4. Sustainability of the OpenAIRE e-Infrastructure and
Supporting Structures, Exploitation and Promotion
Objectives

6. ▫ OpenAIRE will establish a European Helpdesk
System, which will consist of a European Centre and
national Open Access liaison offices in all but one EU
member states and one associated state (Norway).
Building Support Structures for Researchers in Depositing
FP7 Research Publications
Liaison with other Open Access and Repository
Activities in Europe

7. • Based on D-Net and Invenio software
• Infrastructure populated with data on FP7 Open Access pilot
research output, harvested from the appropriate institutional and
thematic repositories or deposited directly in the OpenAIRE
repository (established to host any eligible publication that has no
natural association with any other repository)
• OpenAIRE will deploy a monitoring tool and statistics services as
means to measure the usage of FP7 and ERC funded research
publications.
• OpenAIRE will develop a portal that will be the gateway to all user-
level services offered by the e-Infrastructure established, including
access to scientific publications and other value-added
functionality.
Establishment and Operation of the OpenAIRE
e-Infrastructure

8. • OpenAIRE will work with several subject communities to
explore the requirements, practices, incentives, workflows,
data models, and technologies to deposit, access, and
otherwise manipulate research datasets of various forms in
combination with research publications.
• Main areas/project parnters:
▫ Health: European Bioinformatics Institute(EBI part of EMBL
▫ Environment: World Data Center for Climate and
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
▫ I&CT: Center of Excellence: Cognitive Interaction Technology
▫ Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities : Data Archiving
and Networked Services (DANS)
Exploration of and experimentation with Scientific
Data Management Services

9. OpenAIRE Architecture Overview

10. Thank you!
Questions?
More information soon available at:
www.openaire.eu