Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds. 
OpenAIRE has set up a Helpdesk to answer your questions about the FP7 pilot and ERC OA guidelines, and on depositing Open Access publications.
20 February 2010
European Countries join forces to realize the EC Open Access pilot: OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a three-years project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, has now taken up its work to implement Open Access on a pan-European scale. This ambitious effort unites 38 partners from 27 European countries.
The main goal of OpenAIRE is to support the Open Access pilot, launched by the European Commission in August 2008. This Open Access pilot, which covers about 20% of the FP7 budget, commits researchers from 7 thematic areas (Health, Energy, Environment, Information & Communication Technology, Research Infrastructures, Socio-economic sciences & Humanities and Science in Society) to deposit their research publications in an institutional or disciplinary Open Access repository, to be made available worldwide in full text. OpenAIRE will establish underlying structures for researchers to support them in complying with the pilot through European Helpdesk System, build an OpenAIRE portal and e-Infrastructure for the repository networks and explore scientific data management services together with 5 disciplinary communities.
Mark your calendar
| Wed Aug 11 @09:30 - 05:00PM Workshop for Repository Administrators |
| Wed Sep 01 @08:00 - 05:00PM SHERPA/RoMEO API Workshop |
| Thu Sep 02 @08:00 - 05:00PM Repository Fringe 2010 |
| Mon Oct 25 @08:00 - 05:00PM Berlin8 Open Access Conference First Announcement |
| Mon Nov 08 SPARC Digital Repositories |