OpenAIRE recently participated in the 140th GIST Seminar, hosted by the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, with additional engagements in Kyoto. The visit, co-organised by Kyoto University Library, provided an opportunity to present the OpenAIRE Graph and explore future collaboration around Open Science policies and research intelligence.   From Open Data to Open Research Intelligence At GRIPS, Dr. Andrea Mannocci from the OpenAIRE Graph team delivered the lect...

Controlling its research intelligence is a critical pillar of European digital sovereignty. We explored this intersection at the European Economic and Social Committee's Civil Society Week 2026 during the Media and digital resilience as safeguards of democracy session. Despite the large amount of research generated by European academics, the infrastructure, analytics, and metadata that steer our scientific focus (research intelligence) are frequently controlled by foreign companies with their ow...

OpenAIRE hosted the second workshop in its series on Collaborative Pathways to Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) via Open Infrastructures, following the first successful hands-on session at the Open Science Fair 2025 at CERN. This new workshop brought together a diverse community of research managers, infrastructure providers, policy specialists, and open science practitioners committed to advancing RRA by understanding what infrastructures need to deliver in practice. The workshop continued...

The OpenAIRE Graph is a global open infrastructure linking over 400 million metadata records from more than 100,000 trusted sources. It provides interconnected metadata on publications, research data, software, grants, institutional affiliations, and impact indicators. As part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative, a unified digital space for European research, the OpenAIRE Graph plays a critical role in making research more accessible across Europe and beyond. Through our partici...

From 13 to 16 January 2026, OpenAIRE hosted its bi-annual technical meeting in Athens, bringing together the OpenAIRE technical team to reflect on the evolution of the OpenAIRE infrastructure in practice. Discussions focused on how its core systems, data architecture, and service layer are developed, aligned, and scaled, while also looking ahead to the next generation of OpenAIRE services and architectural priorities, explored in more detail in this blog post on what's next for the OpenAIRE infr...

From 13 to 16 January 2026, the OpenAIRE team gathered in Athens for a four-day journey into the heart of Europe's open research ecosystem, exploring innovations and improvements in the Open Science landscape.Over intense, in-depth sessions, participants combined strategic planning, technical exploration, and hands-on collaboration, all aimed at shaping the next phase of OpenAIRE services and infrastructure. The meeting brought together technical teams, the office team, and Executive Board membe...

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...

Simply being open is not enough; infrastructure must also be enduring. The Open Science movement stands at a critical juncture. While the principle of making research outputs "open" is now widely accepted as a prerequisite for progress, the true challenge remains: achieving long-term sustainability for the core infrastructures that make this openness possible.  This was the central question explored at the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information's recent Working Group 5 session o...

On 24 November 2025, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and the Athena Research Center (ARC) brought together members of the Greek research community for an event dedicated to the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. Hosted at the Law School Library's Small Amphitheatre, the gathering reaffirmed the growing momentum in Greece toward more transparent, interoperable, and community-driven research information systems. The evening opened with insights from Bianc...

This blog was jointly written with Elli Papadopoulou. In Greece and Sweden, emergency departments face a common challenge: patients arriving with ambiguous symptoms that could signal either minor issues or life-threatening conditions. Doctors at AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki and hospitals using the CLEOS system in Sweden have been collecting rich triage data, vital signs, symptoms, medical histories, but sharing and jointly analyzing these datasets has been nearly impossible. The data contain s...

The euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting 2025 in İzmir brought together a diverse community of research information professionals, infrastructure providers, and policy makers to reflect on the evolving landscape of research information management. A central theme running throughout the event was the understanding that trustworthy research information does not emerge organically; it must be intentionally designed into our infrastructures, policies, and workflows. OpenAIRE participated in the eve...

At ISSI 2025 in Yerevan, Natalia Manola and Zenia Xenou from OpenAIRE introduced MyResearchFolio provided by OpenAIRE, its new pilot service designed to support the ongoing shift toward responsible research assessment. The conference, hosted this year in Armenia, brought together leading voices in scientometrics and information science for in-depth discussions on indicators, research assessment, and the transformative role of AI in researcher and evaluation workflows. It was a real pleasure...

Key Takeaways from the CoARA1–EC–ENRIO-EDI-TUM Conference (Brussels, 2 June 2025) Setting the SceneOn 2 June 2025, stakeholders from across the globe gathered in Brussels and online for the high-level conference "Advancing Responsible Research Assessment for Funders in the European Digital Space. A dialogue on ethics, integrity, and open infrastructure." The event addressed the urgent need to reform research assessment systems in light of rapid digital transformation, artificial intelligenc...

Having recently attended the COAR Annual Conference 2025 in Tokyo, I've returned with a renewed perspective on the evolving landscape of open repositories. The event provided a platform for vibrant discussions and thought-provoking presentations, especially around the integration of AI technologies and their implications for data availability. Managing AI Traffic in Open Infrastructures One of the standout themes was the challenge posed by AI bots attempting to scrape data from scholarly communi...

The first update of the latest dataset released in December (v.10.0.0), version 10.0.1 includes updated Crossref publications to include contents until December 2024 and updated Datacite contents until December 2024. An update was also added which incrementally added newer records from Crossref and Datacite resulting in ~13K more datasets (0.02%) and ~950K more publications (0.5%).You can access the latest dataset at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14582029 (there labelled as v9.0.0). If you...

Bringing together Bulgarian policymakers and Open Science experts from the OpenAIRE community, the session addressed key pillars of Open Science – policy, training and infrastructure – and offered valuable insights into implementation processes in Belgium, Portugal and Ireland. The webinar kicked off with an introduction to the Open Science ecosystem in Bulgaria by Milena Damyanova, Director of the Science Directorate at the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science. She emphasized that the im...

In December, the Rector of the Azerbaijan Technical University, Prof. Dr Vilayat Valiyev officially announced the establishment of the University's Open Science Office! It should also be noted that the support provided by the Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation, Prof. Dr Subhan Namazov, to the Library Center in this area is undeniable. The OS Office will function within the framework of the university's Library Information Center and enjoy the complete support of the Rector's office...

Authors: Stefania Amodeo, Angeliki Tzouganatou, Thanasis Vergoulis OpenAIRE recently participated in the Paris Conference on Open Research Information. This event focused on implementing the Barcelona Declaration. Held at Sorbonne University in Paris from September 23-24, 2024, the conference brought together signatories, supporters, and diverse stakeholders committed to advancing Open Research Information across the global research ecosystem. The event showcased the growing momentum behind the ...

OPEN is a part of the Open Science Platform (pon.edu.pl) at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (icm.edu.pl). Formerly known to the Polish academic community as the CeON Repository, it enables Polish researchers from all fields to openly share their articles, books, conference materials, reports, doctoral theses, and other scientific texts. Publications in the Repository are indexed by the most important aggregators and search engines, ...

Gultekin Gurdal, the Library Director at Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) and an executive board member of OpenAIRE AMKE, attended the Polish Open Science Conference that took place 10–12 April 2024. This key event, focused on all aspects of Open Science, provided a platform for researchers, librarians, data managers, and scientific infrastructure developers to discuss critical issues such as Open Access publishing, research data management, and the European Open Scienc...