This means that any FP7/ERC- funded publications within the Open Access pilot subject areas in your repository can not be harvested and so will not be found through the OpenAIRE portal.

In order for OpenAIRE to harvest and connect publications to the related EC FP7 grant aggreement and to calculated the share of Open Access versus non-Open Access publications we do require repositories to adapt to the OpenAIRE Guidelines. These are low-barrier requirements for OAI-PMH compliant repositories that builds on oai_dc and the DRIVER Guidelines.

The OpenAIRE Guidelines are simple metadata specifications for repositories that need to be OpenAIRE compliant. After complying to the OpenAIRE guidelines, the repository will become the single entry point for researchers that want to deposit FP7 publications.

Yes, at the moment major repository applications like Dspace, Eprints are OpenAIRE compliant, as are a number of national and local systems. Moreover the Open Journal Systems, used by thousands of journals around the world, is OpenAIRE compliant.

Please make sure you have an ec_fundedresources set and that it contains at least one record.

Please make sure that you have set up correctly your ListIdentifiers and GetRecord verbs for your ec_fundedresources records.

OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI-PMH) is a set of rules and methods that standardize the access to the content of repositories. The OpenAIRE Guidelines builds on OAI-PMH v.2.0

The purpose of DRIVER was to connect repositories in Europe, and make them interoperable. The purpose of OpenAIRE is to make FP7/ ERC publications visible. To achieve this and allow central harvesting of FP7/ ERC publications, repositories must comply with some minimum technical requirements.