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Zenodo’s Open Repository Streamlines Sharing Science – SPARC

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“A decade ago, the scientific community recognized that to move from open access to open science, there was a need for free unrestricted access to scientific knowledge. This meant valuing, sharing and preserving data, software and other digital artifacts from research, but the on-ramp to participate had to be faster and simpler if the practice was going to gain traction.

The European Union decided to fund CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) through the OpenAIRE project to build a catch-all repository to ensure all researchers had a place to easily upload software, data, preprints and other digital outputs.

That was the beginning of Zenodo, which CERN and OpenAIRE launched in 2013. Since, the free global platform has expanded faster than imagined. It now has 25 million visits a year, hosts 3+ million uploads and over 1 petabyte of data. This year marks the platform’s 10th anniversary and today Zenodo is widely viewed as a trusted place to preserve research materials that could be of use to others in advancing science….”

Zenodo’s Open Repository Streamlines Sharing Science – SPARC

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“A decade ago, the scientific community recognized that to move from open access to open science, there was a need for free unrestricted access to scientific knowledge. This meant valuing, sharing and preserving data, software and other digital artifacts from research, but the on-ramp to participate had to be faster and simpler if the practice was going to gain traction.

The European Union decided to fund CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) through the OpenAIRE project to build a catch-all repository to ensure all researchers had a place to easily upload software, data, preprints and other digital outputs.

That was the beginning of Zenodo, which CERN and OpenAIRE launched in 2013. Since, the free global platform has expanded faster than imagined. It now has 25 million visits a year, hosts 3+ million uploads and over 1 petabyte of data. This year marks the platform’s 10th anniversary and today Zenodo is widely viewed as a trusted place to preserve research materials that could be of use to others in advancing science….”

OpenAIRE Graph: steadily riding the wild wave of Open Science

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“Having the vision to create and deliver an open, up-to-date, and global “map of science” across disciplines and countries, from December 2019 onwards, we started providing the OpenAIRE Graph (until recently called the OpenAIRE Research Graph), one of the largest and most heterogeneous collections of scholarly metadata for research products (e.g., articles, datasets, software), other research entities (e.g., projects, institutions, communities), and the links between them. This initiative culminates over ten years of work by OpenAIRE in the domain of scholarly communication to facilitate and advocate for the free flow and sharing of research products and related metadata across researchers, communities, institutions, companies, and policymakers. As a result of this community-driven and technological effort, today, our Graph aggregates and interlinks hundreds of millions of metadata records from tens of thousands of data sources trusted by scientists.

The Graph is being updated bi-weekly and its contents are available for download and re-use as CC-BY via an API, while an open snapshot is released every six months on Zenodo.org. In addition, the principles, data, and vision of the Graph are community-governed: OpenAIRE AMKE that implements and delivers the Graph, is a non-profit legal entity connecting 49 members that represent research and academic organisations who are committed to Open Science and steer activities in their countries (read our Strategy 2023-2025). OpenAIRE AMKE’s participatory governance structure ensures the Graph’s endorsement, adoption, operation, and sustainability among its members, countries, and research communities. Finally, the underlying infrastructure has recently adhered to the POSI principles.  

The Graph APIs count today 500Mi+ accesses per year via OpenAIRE portals and as third-party services requests. Elsevier’s Scopus and SciVal rely on the APIs, as well as European and worldwide institutional repositories, European Commission (EC’s Participants Portal SYGMA), ORCID, other funders around the globe, researchers, companies, and scholarly services. Furthermore, the Graph will be a key EOSC resource by providing the EOSC with: (i) a catalogue of all research products, core in fostering Open Science and establishing its practices in the daily research activities, and (ii) Open Science monitoring tools, to measure trends and impact of Open Science and funding across communities and Nations. Conceived as a public and transparent good, populated out of data sources trusted by scientists, the Graph aims at bringing discovery, monitoring, and assessment of science back into the hands of the scientific community….”

Survey of Open Repositories in Europe

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“The aim of this survey is to gain a better understanding of the repository landscape in Europe in order to develop a relevant and effective strategy to strengthen repositories in the region…. 

The survey is being undertaken by OpenAIRE, LIBER, SPARC Europe, and COAR as part of their Joint Strategy to Strengthen the European Repository Network. Results of the survey will be presented in a report in summer 2023. Aggregate, anonymised data will be deposited into the Zenodo repository. No personal information will be shared beyond the survey analysis team and contact information will be used for internal purposes only.

The survey is open to any open research / scholarly repository based in Europe and should be completed by a person who is responsible for managing the repository….”

Call for Expressions of Interest – CARL Visiting Program Officer, Metadata & CARL Collaboration with OpenAIRE – Canadian Association of Research Libraries

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“CARL invites applications for a Visiting Program Officer (VPO), Metadata & CARL Collaboration with OpenAIRE. The incumbent will work with the Canadian OpenAIRE Task Force to lead CARL’s ongoing collaboration with OpenAIRE, an international network that promotes and shares common practices, standards, protocols, and content towards a sustainable open global research ecosystem, and liaise with the Tri-Agency and the Canadian repository community on behalf of the Task Force.

The successful candidate will have expertise in metadata and repositories, the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, and strong organizational and communication skills. The ability to work in both English and French would be an asset. The position will entail working for CARL for the equivalent of one day per week, for a period of at least one year. The deadline to apply is February 15, 11:59 p.m. Eastern….”

OpenAIRE, LIBER, SPARC Europe and COAR Launch Joint Strategy to Strengthen the European Repository Network – COAR

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“Open science is ushering in a new paradigm for research; one in which all  researchers have unprecedented access to the full corpus of research for analysis, text and data mining, and other novel research methods. A prerequisite for achieving this vision is a strong and well-functioning network of repositories that provides human and machine access to the wide range of valuable research outputs. Repositories also support much needed bibliodiversity in the system as they collect a diverse range of content types, domains and languages, and are fundamental for achieving Europe’s desired changes to research evaluation, whereby “assessment of research, researchers and research organisations recognises the diverse outputs, practices and activities that maximise the quality and impact of research”.

Currently, Europe has one of the most well-developed networks globally with hundreds of repositories hosted by universities, research centres, government departments, and not-for-profit organisations. However, there are significant variations across the European repository landscape with differing levels of support and funding; and, while some countries have strong national coordination, others do not. In a practical sense, this means that some repositories have access to the resources they need to provide a well-functioning service, while others find it a challenge to maintain up-to-date software platforms and suitable staffing levels….

To that end, today OpenAIRE, LIBER, SPARC Europe, and COAR are launching a joint strategy aimed at strengthening the European repository network. Through this strategy we are committed to working together – and with other relevant organisations – to develop and execute an action plan that will reinforce and enhance repositories in Europe. As a first step, we will undertake a survey that will enable us to have a better understanding of the current repository landscape and identify priority areas of action. The survey will be available in February 2023.”

Stepping up Open Science with OpenAIRE services

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“Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) are encompassing all Universities and Institutions that enable researchers to conduct and perform their research and duties by ensuring the presence of infrastructures and (human) resources to support and produce valuable research products (publications, data, software, patents, etc.).??

 

Thousands of organisations have expressed an interest in shifting the new research culture vision, enforcing the need for policy changes in research assessment. The embrace of this vision has been translated into signing several declarations such as the DORA declaration, the?Leiden Manifesto, the?Metric Tide, and the?Hong Kong Principles for Assessing Researchers just to name a few. RPOs are key stakeholders of the more recent Agreement on Research Assessment, being part of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).?…”

Copyright for Open Science (C4OS) Series

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“Can we think of a Copyright system that provides equitable compensation to all involved parties, while maximising access to scientific resources and ensuring sustainable value production? Is the solution within the existing Copyright system or shall we look outside of it? Is Copyright reform attainable, and if yes, should it be incremental or radical? Finally, are new forms of legislation, such as data governance policy and legislation (from Open Data to Platform regulation), providing us with a new framework of thinking as to how we could achieve the desired balance between different copyright holders?

The Copyright for Open Science (C4OS), an initiative of OpenAIRE aims at addressing these questions in a series of three meetings/ workshops, where legal scholars, policy makers, publishers, creators, researchers and information scientists share their views as to how an equitable, sustainable and just model for Open Science may be achieved. …”

the-new-openaire-monitor-brand-new-dashboards-and-features

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“The assessment of research activities is a key step in the decision-making process for every organisation investing in such activities; whether it is a funder evaluating the proper allocation of grants to maximise societal impact, an institution looking to find hidden potential and room-for-improvement areas, or a research initiative considering expanding its network, to name a few examples. The reliable and timely monitoring and evaluation of research activities are indispensable for the efficient allocation of resources and the overall decision-making process. 

The OpenAIRE MONITOR is an on-demand service built upon the OpenAIRE Research Graph with the mission to fulfill these needs. It offers tailor-made data and visualisation monitoring dashboards for funders, institutions and research initiatives, populated with well-documented metrics and indicators of research activities. To meet the requirements of each individual organisation, a default dashboard is improved upon in one-on-one co-designing sessions, that include the validation of data shown and the creation of new indicators, if needed.

After the launch of the Institutional Dashboard of OpenAIRE MONITOR, in May 2022, and working closely with the community, we focused our efforts on upgrading the service in three areas: (i) updating the user interface, (ii) improving the documentation of methodology and indicators (the new Resources tab), and (iii) redesigning all MONITOR dashboards with new indicators and visualisations. …”

New Partnership between DOAJ and OpenAIRE will make research more accessible – DOAJ News Service, 20/10/2022

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“DOAJ and OpenAIRE are pleased to announce a new partnership which will promote collaboration and discovery between the two parties, by sharing metadata and enriching it. The collaboration aims to enhance the discoverability of the journals indexed in DOAJ in two ways: by enhancing DOAJ’s article metadata with metadata from the OpenAIRE Research Graph; and by enabling OpenAIRE to include in the Research Graph the diverse range of journals that DOAJ indexes, thereby increasing the discovery of research in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities from all languages and countries. With this collaboration, DOAJ will become a service registered to the OpenAIRE Catalogue of Services and integrated into EOSC Resources Catalogue….”

OpenAIRE participates in the International Open Access Week Open for Climate Justice

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“As per tradition, OpenAIRE will actively contribute to the International Open Access Week 2022 initiatives with interactive sessions and thought-provoking panel discussions connected to the theme of this year “Open for Climate Justice”.

But what does climate justice mean and how “open” can be a facilitator for climate justice? We have prepared two series of webinars that will showcase the different ways in which we can all work together and make Open Science a means to tackle the challenges ahead of us….”

Set Science Free: OpenAIRE 3 Year Strategy Document 2023-2025

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OpenAIRE has been operating as an e-Infrastructure provider for Open Scholarly Communication since 2009 and was established as a non-profit organisation in 2018. This first strategy document is the result of the work put forward by members of the OpenAIRE Standing Committee on Open Science Strategies and brings the collective knowledge and commitments from OpenAIRE members. 

It presents 5 strategic priorities on what the OpenAIRE community wants to tackle, and describes how OpenAIRE infrastructure, both its human network and ICT services, can support or evolve to serve these priorities.

Open Science Observatory – OpenAIRE Blog

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“The Open Science Observatory (https://osobservatory.openaire.eu) is an OpenAIRE platform showcasing a collection of indicators and visualisations that help policy makers and research administrators better understand the Open Science landscape in Europe, across and within countries.  

The broader context: As the number of Open Science mandates have been increasing across countries and scientific fields, so has the need to track Open Science practices and uptake in a timely and granular manner. The Open Science Observatory assists the monitoring, and consequently the enhancing, of open science policy uptake across different dimensions of interest, revealing weak spots and hidden potential. Its release comes in a timely fashion, in order to support UNESCO’s global initiative for Open Science and the European Open Science Cloud (the current development and enhancement is co-funded by the EOSC Future H2020 project and will appear in the EOSC Portal).  …

How does it work: Based on the OpenAIRE Research Graph, following open science principles and an evidence-based approach, the Open Science Observatory provides simple metrics and more advanced composite indicators which cover various aspects of open science uptake such us

different openness metrics
FAIR principles
Plan S compatibility & transformative agreements
APCs

as well as measures related to the outcomes of Open Access research output as they relate to

network & collaborations
usage statistics and citations
Sustainable Development Goals

across and within European countries. ”