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OpenAIRE releases version 2.0 of the OpenAIRE Guidelines

| Pedro Príncipe
The OpenAIRE Guidelines 2.0 provide the OpenAIRE compatibility to repositories and aggregators.  By implementing these Guidelines, repository managers are facilitating the authors who deposit their publications in the repository in complying with the EC Open Access requirements. For developers of repository platforms, the Guid…
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Greece promotes Open Access Week 2012

| Henry Scott
The National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT) participated in the Open Access Week by hosting a series of events - informative sessions and seminars - which aimed to broaden understanding and raise awareness of open access issues. In line with the global open access week, this year’s theme of open access week activities at EKT was "…
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Interoperability Workshop - University of Minho, 7/8 February 2013

| Najla Rettberg
OpenAIRE interoperability workshop OpenAIREplus wants to define and implement a way "to talk" to data-infrastructures (primarily for fetching of metadata about research data, secondary to provide feedback resulting from metadata enhancements). This 2 day workshop will concentrate on interoperability between research infrastructures, namely b…
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OpenAIRE Conference - Presentations online!

| Najla Rettberg
The OpenAIRE conference was held on 21 - 22 November at the University of Göttingen. Presentations are now online. The conference presented the results of the OpenAIRE project which supports the European Commission’s FP7 Open Access Pilot.  It featured a picture of the open access & supporting infrastructure landscape in Europe and…
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Pensoft Journals now Integrated into OpenAIRE

| Najla
In collaboration with OpenAIRE, Pensoft Publishers have worked on integrating their journal articles funded by the FP7 funding stream into OpenAIRE to make them even more visible and accessible.  The integration will also be configured so that publications entering Pensoft's new editorial system can identify FP7 funding programme…
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Pure is now OpenAIRE compliant!

| Jeannette Ekstroem
Pure, the CRIS system is now enabled to join the European Open Access infrastructure OpenAIRE. Why is this important? Because it will enable project leaders and managers to easily link up research output to the funding details of the European Commission, and enable open access availability. Read more to find out exactly how this was done....
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Pensoft Integrated with OpenAIRE

| Najla Rettberg
Another publisher is now harvested by OpenAIRE! The life sciences publisher Pensoft are making their FP7 articles even more visible to researchers and the wider public, via OpenAIRE...
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euroCRIS and OpenAIRE work together to enable data exchange with CRIS

| Najla Rettberg
OpenAIRE and euroCRIS have agreed on the use of CERIF-XML as the standard format by which OpenAIRE will harvest information from CRIS. This was decided during the OpenAIRE Interoperability Workshop at Minho University in Braga, Portugal, held on the 7th and 8th of February.
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OpenAIRE/LIBER Workshop May 28, Ghent Belgium

| Open Access Belgium
For a full write up of the event, and video clips, see here:  http://www.openaire.eu/en/component/content/article/1-general-information/462
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OpenAIRE: Call for Tender for Sustainability Model and Business Plan

| Najla Rettberg
OpenAIRE wishes to commission a study which will provide OpenAIRE and the European Commission with a Sustainability Model and Business Plan.Please find full details, and a link to the tender via the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Website: Note: please email your interest via online form for full access to documentation. Call…
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BioOne and OpenAIRE: Text-Mining Agreement

| Najla Rettberg
WASHINGTON, DC—BioOne, the global source for leading edge bioscience research, is pleased to announce a new collaborative agreement with OpenAIRE. BioOne will make its entire collection of publications, 176 titles from 132 publishers, available to OpenAIRE for text mining. This partnership demonstrates BioOne’s commitment to maximizing access…
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OpenAIRE, COAR and LIBER: Joint response to EC Research Data Framework

| Najla Rettberg
LIBER, COAR and OpenAIRE strongly support the development of an open, interoperable e-infrastructure for scientific data through the engagement of the relevant actors, including libraries and repositories supporting researchers in their scientific endeavor. This framework for action is highly relevant, both for the success of data driven sci…
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