Cooperation & Networks — Initiatives & Projects
OpenAIRE2020
50 partners, from all EU countries, and beyond collaborate to work on this large-scale initiative that aims to promote open scholarship and substantially improve the discoverability and reusability of research publications and data. The initiative bring together professionals from research libraries, open scholarship organisations, national e-Infrastructure and data experts, IT and legal researchers, showcasing the truly collaborative nature of this pan-European endeavor. A network of people, represented by the National Open Access Desks (NOADs), organise activities to collect H2020 project outputs, and support research data management. Backing this vast outreach, is the OpenAIRE platform, the technical infrastructure that is vital for pulling together and interconnecting the large-scale collections of research outputs across Europe. The project creates workflows and services on top of this valuable repository content, which enable an interoperable network of repositories (via the adoption of common guidelines), and easy upload into an all-purpose repository (via Zenodo).
- Posted on: 19.05.2017
- Project date: January 2015 - July 2018
- Acronym: OpenAIRE2020
- Coordinating institute: University of Athens
Website: Link
OpenAIRE2020 assists in monitoring H2020 research outputs and is a key infrastructure for reporting H2020’s scientific publications as it is loosely coupled to the EC’s IT backend systems. The EC’s Research Data Pilot is supported through European-wide outreachfor best research data management practices and Zenodo, which provides long-tail data storage. Other activities include: collaboration with national funders to reinforce the infrastructure’s research analytic services; an APC Gold OA pilot for FP7 publications with collaboration from LIBER; novel methods of review and scientific publishing withthe involvement of hypotheses.org; a study and a pilot on scientific indicators related to open access with CWTS’s assistance; legal studies to investigate data privacy issues relevant to the Open Data Pilot; international alignment with related networks elsewhere with the involvement of COAR.
