In today’s fast-changing research landscape, understanding the impact of your organisation’s research output is essential. Whether you're a research institution, funder, or part of a broader research initiative, you need clear, trustworthy insights to make informed decisions, demonstrate value, and drive meaningful progress.

That’s where OpenAIRE MONITOR comes in.

Custom dashboards, clear insights

OpenAIRE MONITOR is an on-demand service that creates personalised dashboards tailored to the needs of funders, research institutions, and research initiatives. These dashboards help you track, evaluate, and showcase research activities, offering clear evidence of your organisation’s contribution to science and society.

MONITOR is currently also extending its reach to support Publishers of Diamond Open Access Journals, helping them track visibility, usage, and impact of their publications.

Built on the rich, interlinked data of the OpenAIRE Graph – a trusted source of over 300 million research products including publications, datasets, software, and more – and shaped through one-on-one collaboration with scholarly communication experts, each dashboard delivers.

• Reliable indicators and metrics from Open Access uptake to funding flows, partnerships, and societal impact.
• Clear visualisations that make trends, connections, and gaps easy to understand.
• Flexible insights you can use for internal planning, reporting, or public engagement.

What makes MONITOR different?

OpenAIRE MONITOR is not just another analytics tool. It was designed from the ground up to reflect the values of Open Science, transparency, inclusiveness, and reusability, in order to provide you with comprehensive, accurate, and granular custom dashboards.

• Tailored to you: Every organisation is different. That’s why we co-design your dashboard with you, ensuring it reflects your priorities, terminology, and workflows. You even decide whether to make your dashboard public or to keep it private, only for those within your organisation to view.
• Open by design: Built on open data, open APIs, and a documented methodology you can trust.
• Connected and comprehensive: MONITOR brings together data on both open and closed publications, datasets, and software, as well as collaborations, and more; all seamlessly linked through the OpenAIRE Graph, which collects data from more than 100k trusted sources worldwide, and aligned with EOSC infrastructure.

Why it matters

For funders, MONITOR helps demonstrate return on investment, assess policy alignment, and guide future funding decisions.

For research institutions, it simplifies reporting, reveals impact pathways, and supports strategic planning.

For initiatives and alliances, it showcases collective achievements and helps engage stakeholders by making progress visible and accessible.

Currently, 9 funders, 15 research initiatives, 40 research institutions, and counting rely on MONITOR. These include university alliances such as the Aurora Network and global players like the World Bank. National initiatives have also adopted dashboards to track, analyse, and showcase the research outputs and impact of all institutions, funders, and researchers in a country. Examples include the Netherlands Research Portal and the National Open Access Monitor Ireland.

Join the MONITOR community

OpenAIRE MONITOR is more than a service, it’s a growing community of research actors committed to transparency, collaboration, and smarter science policy.

Get started today, visit monitor.openaire.eu to explore dashboards, and book a call with our team. Let’s shape the future of research assessment, together.