Research Infrastructures - OpenAire 2020
H2020 RI
OpenAIRE2020 represents a pivotal phase in the long-term effort to implement and strengthen the impact of the Open Access (OA) policies of the European Commission (EC), building on the achievements of the OpenAIRE projects. OpenAIRE2020 will expand and leverage its focus from (1) the agents and resources of scholarly communication to workflows and processes, (2) from publications to data, software, and other research outputs, and the links between them, and (3) strengthen the relationship of European OA infrastructures with other regions of the world, in particular Latin America and the U.S. Through these efforts OpenAIRE2020 will truly support and accelerate Open Science and Scholarship, of which Open Access is of fundamental importance.
OpenAIRE2020 continues and extends OpenAIRE’s scholarly communication infrastructure to manage and monitor the outcomes of EC-funded research. It combines its substantial networking capacities and technical capabilities to deliver a robust infrastructure offering support for the Open Access policies in Horizon 2020, via a range of pan-European outreach activities and a suite of services for key stakeholders. It provides researcher support and services for the Open Data Pilot and investigates its legal ramifications. The project offers to national funders the ability to implement OpenAIRE services to monitor research output, whilst new impact measures for research are investigated. OpenAIRE2020 engages with innovative publishing and data initiatives via studies and pilots. By liaising with global infrastructures, it ensures international interoperability of repositories and their valuable OA contents.
To ensure sustainability and long-term health for the overall OpenAIRE infrastructure, the proposed OpenAIRE2020 project will establish itself as a legal entity, which will manage the production-level responsibilities securing 24/7 reliability and continuity to all relevant user groups, data providers and other stakeholders.
Objectives
The main objective is to establish an open and sustainable scholarly communication infrastructure responsible for the overall management, analysis, manipulation, provision, monitoring and cross-linking of all research outcomes (publications, related datasets, software and services) across existing, planned and future repositories. Promote the discoverability and reuse of data-driven research results, across scientific disciplines and thematic domains.
- Support the H2020 vision of open access for scientific publications and the Open Data Pilot for H2020: make OpenAIRE a central infrastructure and service in H2020.
- Build a pan-European Research Information platform to monitor OA research outcomes from the EC and other national funders. Develop research analytics tools to promote new scientific metrics and support evidence-based decision-making.
- Create an international OA repository collaboration platform to support truly global research and scholarly communication.
- Make OpenAIRE a hub for 3rd party providers to build innovative services that explore new forms of scholarly communication and promote alternative, competitive Open Access publishing models.
- Make OpenAIRE a legal entity to promote its long-term sustainability and uptake
Role of Ghent University
Ghent University is part of the networking team coordinating dissemination and outreach activities, training and support. As part of the networking team, Ghent University coordinates activities in region west consisting of 9 European National Open Access Desks (NOAD) in Western Europe and is NOAD for Belgium. The idea is that a specialized Open Access Desk is operational in every European country, speaking the language(s) of the country.
As coordinator of region west Ghent University is taking part in the project steering committee.
Contact
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh
University Library
Phone number: +32 9 264 7940
E-mail: Inge.VanNieuwerburgh@UGent.be