This year’s theme for Open Access Week is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” and OpenAIRE will be participating once more as a key enabler to this call. With its presence in the Open Access domain for over ten years and extensive suite of free at the point of use services that equip its end users with the tools to empower openness, OpenAIRE is ideally placed to lead this charge. In line with this year’s theme, over the course of this week we present a handful of selected services that we produce to give you a flavour of what you can do in your own research to promote structural equity. These five services, CONNECT, ARGOS, OpenCitations, OpenOrgs, and EXPLORE, will be spotlighted individually (from 25th to 29th October) and introduce their strengths in achieving Open Science.

CONNECT provides a means to promote open community building and create a level playing field, whereas ARGOS provides a tool for those communities to gather the requisite information needed to make their data open. OpenOrgs provides disambiguation to organisations that perform research since many have several branches conducting different work which are not always obvious, while OpenCitations allows credit to be given to individual researchers while also providing transparency and upholding the core scientific tenet of research integrity. Finally, EXPLORE brings discoverability to all of the above by painstakingly collecting and creating metadata of research outputs and actors that cover the full spectrum of possibilities from articles, datasets, software, and other research products to entities like organisations, funders, funding streams, projects, communities, and data sources.