Periodic Reporting for period 2 - OpenAIRE-Advance (OpenAIRE Advancing Open Scholarship)
Reporting period: 2019-07-01 to 2021-02-28
Operating as a socio-technical infrastructure, OpenAIRE’s core mission is to accelerate Open Science at the member state level, supporting national players to position Open Science onto national agendas. Having started in January 2018, OpenAIRE Advance links the work of 4 previous projects, and the active effort of 50 partners from research institutions across Europe. Collectively, they have put in place a sustainable set of services, policy support, training and outreach to support Open Science within the context of EOSC.
Advancing Open Science across Europe
OpenAIRE has established its leading role in Open Science thanks to its network of National Open Access Desks (NOADs), with 23 NOADs sitting on national Open Science Working Groups, and 12 NOADs acting as national representatives in EOSC working groups. During the past 18 months, they have held 170 presentations at inter-/national conferences, and organized 14 national workshops. Further to that, NOADs continuously expand national OA and OS points of information. NOADs have reached out to more than 40 funding agencies, culminating in 12 national funder mandates for OpenAIRE. NOADs have contacted >4,100 repositories, and reached out to >1,700 journals and publishers in Europe.
Growing Capacity and Embedding Training
OpenAIRE also brings together experts on topical task groups (open policies, RDM, legal issues, TDM), strengthening the network with support and training toolkits, training resources and workshops. It has held >40 training events, reaching ~2,400 participants.
Scholarly Communication
The current project has examined key elements of scholarly communication to develop essential building blocks of the scholarly commons, which culminate in two reports: “Towards a Sustainable Cooperative and non-APC Publishing Models Landscape” and “Recommendations for improving aspects of institutional publishing platforms”.
Outreach
In close collaboration with e.g. EOSCsecretariat, FAIRsFAIR, EOSC-hub, RDA-Europe and FIT4RRI, OpenAIRE has successfully maintained the Open Science FAIR, and organized five high-level workshops. A sixth workshop on Citizen Science is currently in planning in cooperation with the European University Association (EUA). OpenAIRE was a contributor to the EOSC portal launch event, and is a key player in the EOSC platform’s editorial team.
These diversified activities are also mirrored in strong social media numbers: Social media outreach has been robust, with over 1,800 users in the OpenAIRE facebook group, and more than 11,900 followers on Twitter.
OpenAIRE Research Graph
By providing the EOSC catalogue of all scientific products, the OpenAIRE Research Graph will prove to be a key EOSC resource, and a crucial asset for fostering Open Science. The Graph promotes discoverability and monitoring of scientific products by aggregating more than 450Mi metadata records with links from 10,000 scholarly communication sources. After de-duplication and fine-grained classification, the graph counts ~100Mi publications, ~8Mi datasets, ~200K software research products with 480Mi established semantic relations between them. These products are then linked to 7 research communities, organisations, and projects from >29 funders worldwide to provide Open Science, research impact, and Open Access monitoring.
OpenAIRE Dashboards
OpenAIRE delivers a variety of “dashboard services” to researchers, funders, project coordinators, organizations, and research communities. Once deployed, dashboards are accessible via the EOSC Marketplace to offer focused perspectives to different actors:
• MONITOR for Funders and Research Infrastructures: statistics on research impact and research trends in Open Science;
• CONNECT for Research Communities: sharing and discovery of scientific products, and bridging Research Infrastructure thematic services with the scholarly record;
• PROVIDE for Content Providers: entry-point in EOSC for content providers to offer metadata validation mechanisms (OpenAIRE guidelines compliance), Metadata Brokering Services, and aggregative tools for Publication Usage Statistics across institutional repositories.
Added-value services
OpenAIRE operates a set of services crucial to further development of EOSC and scholarly communication:
• Amnesia: anonymization of sensitive data and seamless integration with Zenodo;
• Scholexplorer: largest collection of article-dataset links (450Mi today);
• Zenodo: catch-all repository for scientific output (publications, datasets, software, others);
• ArgoS: management of machine-actionable Data Management Plans.
Notes on the Use of Resources
• In the financial report, by mistake, all of partner UBONN's effort was assigned to WP9. Of their overall 4.12 PM, UBONN actually spent 1.77 PM in WP9 and 2.35 PM in WP10. This is witnessed by the "Explanation of the work carried per WP". Contributions in WP9 were harmonizing LOD sources for integration into the OpenAIRE system and high-quality interlinking (T9.3) and LOD quality monitoring (T9.4); contributions in WP10 were LOD interlinking maintenance and extension (T10.2.3).
OpenAIRE has established its leading role in Open Science thanks to its network of National Open Access Desks (NOADs), with 23 NOADs sitting on national Open Science Working Groups, and 12 NOADs acting as national representatives in EOSC working groups. During the past 18 months, they have held 170 presentations at inter-/national conferences, and organized 14 national workshops. Further to that, NOADs continuously expand national OA and OS points of information. NOADs have reached out to more than 40 funding agencies, culminating in 12 national funder mandates for OpenAIRE. NOADs have contacted >4,100 repositories, and reached out to >1,700 journals and publishers in Europe.
Growing Capacity and Embedding Training
OpenAIRE also brings together experts on topical task groups (open policies, RDM, legal issues, TDM), strengthening the network with support and training toolkits, training resources and workshops. It has held >40 training events, reaching ~2,400 participants.
Scholarly Communication
The current project has examined key elements of scholarly communication to develop essential building blocks of the scholarly commons, which culminate in two reports: “Towards a Sustainable Cooperative and non-APC Publishing Models Landscape” and “Recommendations for improving aspects of institutional publishing platforms”.
Outreach
In close collaboration with e.g. EOSCsecretariat, FAIRsFAIR, EOSC-hub, RDA-Europe and FIT4RRI, OpenAIRE has successfully maintained the Open Science FAIR, and organized five high-level workshops. A sixth workshop on Citizen Science is currently in planning in cooperation with the European University Association (EUA). OpenAIRE was a contributor to the EOSC portal launch event, and is a key player in the EOSC platform’s editorial team.
These diversified activities are also mirrored in strong social media numbers: Social media outreach has been robust, with over 1,800 users in the OpenAIRE facebook group, and more than 11,900 followers on Twitter.
OpenAIRE Research Graph
By providing the EOSC catalogue of all scientific products, the OpenAIRE Research Graph will prove to be a key EOSC resource, and a crucial asset for fostering Open Science. The Graph promotes discoverability and monitoring of scientific products by aggregating more than 450Mi metadata records with links from 10,000 scholarly communication sources. After de-duplication and fine-grained classification, the graph counts ~100Mi publications, ~8Mi datasets, ~200K software research products with 480Mi established semantic relations between them. These products are then linked to 7 research communities, organisations, and projects from >29 funders worldwide to provide Open Science, research impact, and Open Access monitoring.
OpenAIRE Dashboards
OpenAIRE delivers a variety of “dashboard services” to researchers, funders, project coordinators, organizations, and research communities. Once deployed, dashboards are accessible via the EOSC Marketplace to offer focused perspectives to different actors:
• MONITOR for Funders and Research Infrastructures: statistics on research impact and research trends in Open Science;
• CONNECT for Research Communities: sharing and discovery of scientific products, and bridging Research Infrastructure thematic services with the scholarly record;
• PROVIDE for Content Providers: entry-point in EOSC for content providers to offer metadata validation mechanisms (OpenAIRE guidelines compliance), Metadata Brokering Services, and aggregative tools for Publication Usage Statistics across institutional repositories.
Added-value services
OpenAIRE operates a set of services crucial to further development of EOSC and scholarly communication:
• Amnesia: anonymization of sensitive data and seamless integration with Zenodo;
• Scholexplorer: largest collection of article-dataset links (450Mi today);
• Zenodo: catch-all repository for scientific output (publications, datasets, software, others);
• ArgoS: management of machine-actionable Data Management Plans.
Notes on the Use of Resources
• In the financial report, by mistake, all of partner UBONN's effort was assigned to WP9. Of their overall 4.12 PM, UBONN actually spent 1.77 PM in WP9 and 2.35 PM in WP10. This is witnessed by the "Explanation of the work carried per WP". Contributions in WP9 were harmonizing LOD sources for integration into the OpenAIRE system and high-quality interlinking (T9.3) and LOD quality monitoring (T9.4); contributions in WP10 were LOD interlinking maintenance and extension (T10.2.3).
OpenAIRE acknowledges its role in EOSC and a recently-authored White Paper on “Setting out OpenAIRE's vision and contribution to EOSC” highlights the important role of open scientific communication through the established human network, and OpenAIRE’s participatory infrastructure as a vehicle to deliver Open Science in a trusted and inclusive way. On the services level the monitoring services and Open Science observatory will be consolidated.