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Defines the rules and conditions that govern your access to and use (including transmission, processing, and storage of data) of the resources and services (“Services”) as granted by OpenAIRΕ, and the Research Community to which you belong, for the purpose of meeting the goals of OpenAIRE, namely to embed Open Science into researchers' daily workflow and to implement and align Open Science policies and infrastructures across European research institutions, as well as the goals of your Research Community. 
The OpenAIRE service infrastructure harvests metadata about scholarly communication products (literature, datasets, software, and other research products) and links between such products from a range of institutional or subject repositories, national and institutional research information portals, aggregators, e-journals, data repositories, and software repositories. In addition, it infers links between literature and such products via advanced text and data mining techniques (TDM). The resulting information graph (i.e. interlinked sets of objects) is intended to favour monitoring of open science and open science publishing workflows (e.g. science reproducibility and transparent assessment).

Content Acquisition Policy

The EOSC Explore portal offers users the possibility to transfer files (datasets) to dCache and S3 storages, via the Data Transfer Service (implemented by EGI). For the transfer of files to dCache users are prompted to login to EGI Checkin (EGI production AAI). To transfer files to s3 users are prompted to give their s3 credentials to EOSC Explore. These credentials are encoded and passed to the Data Transfer Service.

OpenAIRE places particular emphasis on the security of personal data and the protection of the data subject. For this reason, OpenAIRE has introduced a Personal Data Policy which covers: lawfulness, fairness and transparency, processing within the legitimate purpose limits, data minimization, accuracy, storage Limitation, integrity and confidentiality, accountability

Describes the levels of availability, serviceability, performance, operation, or other attributes of the Infrastructure. More specifically it desribes SLAs on Content Access, Content Storage, Applications as-a-service hosting,  Support Response Time, Scheduled Infrastructure Downtime.

The level of service is specified as "target" and "minimum," informing what to expect (the minimum), while providing a measurable (average) target value that shows the level of organization performance.

OpenAIRE harvests bibliographic metadata records and Open Access articles full-text from content providers with a view to carrying out text-mining techniques.  This template describes in detail the Agreement for Content Exchange between OpenAIRE and external content providers e.g, consent for re-use of metadata, provisions ensuring quality of service, licensing the enriched metadata.  

The Open Science Agora consortium, led by Athena Research Center, with EGI Foundation, OpenAIRE  AMKE and Netcompany Intrasoft SA as key partners, are the recipients of the European Commission's DG CNECT public procurement tender, "Managed Services for the European Open Science Cloud Platform (EOSC) - LOT1" to build, deploy and operate the Core Federation Services of the EOSC EU Node.  The EOSC EU Node is expected to provide access to a diverse portfolio of FAIR data and professional-quality interoperable services across various domains, including data handling, computing, processing, analysis, and storage.