OpenAIRE for Repository Managers – How Repository Managers Can Support Open Science

Abstract

OpenAIRE is an EU-project in it’s fourth cycle with the aim to support the European Commission‘s goal to make science and research open, re-usable and accessbile since 2009. The EU targets to build the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as a research data plattform for researchers and students as well as the public till 2022. Along with other projects OpenAIRE Advance (2018-2020) is involved in the preperations towards the EOSC and has the mission to spread the idea of Open Science and strengthen the infrastructures needed. The compliancy of institutional and subject-specific repositories from all over Europe with the OpenAIRE-Portal is a key facilitator because it makes research output findable and rises the visibility. In this article the authors discuss the advantages of the compliancy and describe the technical requirements for doing so.