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The new OpenAIRE Content Acquisition Policy (CAP) is here!
| Pedro Príncipe
We collect questions from content providers. We are happy to announce that the new OpenAIRE Content Acquisition Policy (CAP) was published on October, 5 on Zenodo, OpenAIRE’s catch-all repository.

Open Access Week 2018
| Eleni Koulocheri
Join OpenAIRE and FOSTER for a series of webinars and tutorials for the Open Access Week. Once again following our yearly tradition, OpenAIRE joins forces with FOSTER to host= a new series of webinars and tutorials during Open Access Week 2018 (October 22 - 26). This year, we’re going for an interactive, mixed approach. You’ll have the chan…

LA Referencia and CERN enter into agreement to promote and expand Open Science in Latin America
| Kalliroi
On Wednesday, October 24, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Council of LA Referencia and CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) to facilitate the use of the Zenodo repository for Latin American researchers and institutions.
In a ceremony held in Conicyt, Chile offices, it was highlighted tha…
Repository workshop in Zanzibar November, 19-20, 2018
| Pedro Príncipe
COAR, WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network), EIFL and other partners, coordinate a repository workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania on November, 19-20, 2018. The workshop This is the first in a series of meetings to develop a more cohesive strategy for strengthening and building more comprehensive repository networks in Africa…

OpenAIRE’s response on the Implementation Guidelines of Plan S
OpenAIRE's consortium received the Guidance on the implementation of the Plan S with great interest and appreciates this call for public feedback.

OpenAIRE partners with the Open Science MOOC
| Lisa Matthias
OpenAIRE is excited to announce the partnership with the Open Science MOOC! The Open Science MOOC is designed to help equip students and researchers with the skills they need to excel in a modern research environment. It brings together the efforts and resources of hundreds of researchers and practitioners who have all dedicated their time and ex…

Building innovative services on top of OpenAIRE
| Eleni Koulocheri
OpenAIRE has a unique graph of information on scholarly output, with a huge potential to be reused and exploited. Earlier this year, OpenAIRE launched a tender call for services to seek innovative ideas that will improve the OpenAIRE infrastructure services and its overall uptake. Overall, 5 proposals covering two categories were selected and fund…

Italian Open Science Webinar Series 2018
| Pedro Príncipe
For the Open Access Week Italy, in collaboration with the OpenAIRE NOADs, IOSSG, and the RDA Italian Node, offers webinars series! They have a common format and each webinar is dedicated to specific stakeholders, in the field of Open Science: researchers, librarians, research support personnel, funders. The main aim is to provi…

OpenAIRE @DI4R2018
| Pedro Príncipe
On October 9-11, DI4R 2018, the third edition of the Digital Infrastructure for Research conferences, took place in the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Building on the success of DI4R2016 in Krakow and DI4R2017 in Brussels, DI4R2018 was jointly organised by OpenAIRE, EOSC-hub, GÉANT and PRACE. This year's co-chairs were Sinéad Ryan from Trinity Co…

EOSC Portal: OpenAIRE’s contribution to the EOSC implementation
| Ilaria Fava
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) launch event on 23 November 2018 at the University of Vienna is organised by the European Commission and hosted by the Austrian Presidency. It is the inauguration of the EOSC and marks the conclusion of a long process of consultation and reflection with stakeholders.
The event will stress the relevance of th…

Shaping the next generation of Open Science Platforms: Open call for Innovators!
| Kalliroi
OpenAIRE calls you to participate in its open innovation program that will shape new services through challenges.
OpenAIRE’s Open Innovation activities aim to attract innovation at all levels of the OpenAIRE e-Infrastructure: repository and publishing platforms, OpenAIRE services and value-added services using OpenAIRE data/content. Fresh busines…
OpenAIRE@ICT2018
| Kalliroi
From 4 to 6 December at the ICT 2018 exhibition in Vienna, EOSC-hub, OpenAIRE, RDA Europe and FREYA projects are opening a joint booth in the European Commission Village. It is designed to be a focal point of discussions about sharing and opening science, transforming policy-making and society via informed decision-making.
Topics such as sha…