The challenge of measuring what truly counts How can a country, and specifically its academic community, truly understand the impact of its scholarly research? The question is more complex than it seems, especially when the final research products are scattered across multiple platforms, resulting in a picture that is often incomplete and difficult to compare. Greece, through the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link), addresses this problem with an ambitious new infrastructure: ABACUS (Ac...

The OpenAIRE technical team held its annual meeting in Pisa on 12-14 April 2024. As CEO of OpenAIRE and driving this team with Paolo Manghi for 10+ years, I was thrilled to see so many brilliant and young minds in one place. All with a passion to improve OpenAIRE services and make them more useful to research communities. These meetings are always a reminder of the incredible journey that technology has taken us on thus far, as well as the even more exciting path that lies ahead. They are t...