OpenAIRE Content Providers Newsletter December 2020

Join the 10th OpenAIRE Content Providers Community Call

Upcoming meeting: 2nd of December at 14h30 CEST

OpenAIRE runs a series of regular online community calls for all OpenAIRE content provider managers. We welcome any feedback from users. The aim of the calls is to provide clear and accurate information on our infrastructure and service developments.

The main topic of the upcoming meeting will be on the Usage Counts service: the analytics service of OpenAIRE Research Graph.

The Community calls are open to all OpenAIRE content provider managers and we welcome any feedback from users. This is an opportunity to present and discuss recent developments from OpenAIRE, upcoming releases from the Provide related services and other relevant topics.

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Usage Counts, the analytics service of OpenAIRE Research Graph

Get to know how to track the usage activity of your repository

The OpenAIRE Usage Counts service collects usage data from repositories, journals and other scientific data sources, aggregates them and delivers standardized activity reports about research usage and uptake. It complements existing citation mechanisms and assists institutional repository managers, research communities, research organizations, funders and policy makers to track and evaluate research outputs from an early stage.

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Make your repository Open

Check out the Open Science checklist on how to license repositories

OpenAIRE offers practical guidance on how to license repositories. Learn how to apply the right licence to your repository through a companion Open Science (OS) checklist for Content Providers. This checklist offers a state of the art, legally sound, but still manageable set of rules, guidelines, and resources to enable the full potential of OS in the EU research field with a view to addressing copyright and related rights issues.

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