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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Interoperability & Networks for Open Science Working Group of the Couperin consortium has developed IMPACT-R, a poster in French addressing the key challenges of interoperability, sustainability, and robustness in research repositories. IMPACT-R provides a clear and operational synthesis of the seven pillars underpinning a sustainable, interoperable repository infrastructure capable of anticipating technological developments, particularly those related to artificial intelligence. The pos...

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 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...

The French consortium Couperin has long been actively engaged in supporting open science infrastructures, fostering both their development and their uptake by the scientific community. In this context, it has steadily strengthened and diversified its support offer for its member institutions. This momentum is reflected in a significant increase in the number of proposals submitted, rising from two in 2019 to twenty-four in 2025, illustrating both the expansion of the scope of supported...

An invitation from Laura Himanen, a long-standing collaborator through CoARA's OI4RRA Working Group (Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment) and the GraspOS project, brought OpenAIRE to the 3rd Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure Spring Meeting. What came as a genuine surprise was the discovery of a thriving and eagerly growing community working on research intelligence with a level of seriousness rare to find. The meeting crystallised something OpenAIRE has long argued: researc...

As part of the annual SRCE DEI 2023 conference, which is also the final conference of the Croatian Scientific and Educational Cloud (HR-ZOO) national strategic project, the national tripartite meeting of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was held. The meeting was organised with the aim of establishing national coordination of the implementation of EOSC policy and defining national priorities and needs in this area. The goal of tripartite events is to bring together key stakeholders from all...

I consider OpenAIRE to be an essential research infrastructure. by Michal Růžička The OpenAIRE team has the pleasure of speaking to our NOAD in the Czech Republic, Michal Růžička, Head of the Data Security and Management at the Masaryk University.  Read his reflections on Open Science.    How does Masaryk University support Open Science in the Czech Republic? Masaryk University (MU) has a strong position in support of Open Science in the Czech Re...

An OpenAIRE Day and Workshop will take place in Dublin on the 27th of November 2015. This day is being sponsored by the RIAN Board and organised by the RIAN Technical & Communications Group. Who should attend?Repository Managers, Librarians, Data Managers & FundersWhy you should attend?Understand funder perspectives.Learn how to comply with funder mandates for H2020 and OpenAIRE.Provide the context for open access publications in the research environment.Share best practice about metadat...

Once the OpenAIRE-funded METIS2OpenAIRE project led by euroCRIS finished as of mid-May, the basis has been laid for the addition of CRIS systems as data providers into the OpenAIRE aggregation. METIS2OpenAIRE set out to enable the exposure of the METIS CERIF-compliant CRIS metadata feed via an OAI-PMH endpoint so that it could be tested against the CERIF-XML Guidelines for CRIS Managers. The project developed a minimally sufficient validator for this purpose. A sample for the 300,000-record meta...

This is to announce the draft publication of the updated OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers.As of January 31st, 2018, the updated version has been completed for the CRIS Guidelines that were originally released in July 2015. The current release is published under an RFC status.  OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers, version 1.1 Jan Dvořák, Andrea Bollini, Laurent Remy (editors)The Guidelines specify the interoperability layer between Current Research Information Systems (CRIS’s) and the...

Yesterday, 12th June 2017, the high-level European Open Science Cloud Summit took place in Brussels, Belgium. The Summit was designed to be Europe’s moment of commitment to the EOSC and to generate a number of concrete EOSC Statements for implementation. By reviewing key areas of EOSC implementation and endorsing the EOSC statements,  participants would commit to making the EOSC a reality by 2020. As a clear marker of willingness to build the EOSC as an inclusive and sustainable open commons for...

An exciting recent article on the LSE Impact Blog proposes a European Open Access Platform for research. This idea is very much in line with OpenAIRE’s mission of building a public research publication infrastructure and as such we welcome the authors’ vision. A public platform for the dissemination of research will become essential infrastructure to finally fully integrate research publishing and dissemination into the research lifecycle, rather than seeing it as an added-extra to be outsourced...

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Pilot project kicked off last 17-18 January in Amsterdam. The EOSCpilot brings together about 50 partners, third-parties and subcontractors to support the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It will establish the governance framework for the EOSC and contribute to the development of European open science policy and best practice. Moreover, it will develop a number of working scientific demonstrators that show interoperability and its bene...