Welcome to the second OpenAIRE newsletter! It has been a busy half year for the project: outreach and synergies at the top of our agenda and we have had much communication with research and data infrastructures to see how we can bridge the gap. As we now know, ‘Data is the big arrival …Data is now Mainstream’[1] (yes, we too were present at Open Repositories...), so it’s timely that OpenAIRE will fittingly serve to connect the two building blocks of the research infrastructure: publication repositories and research data.

Big news is that we now have 25k publications in our information space! This massive growth happened via the tireless work of our technical teams who text-mined from a range of sources.

In order to activate our community on the data side of things we held a workshop in Copenhagen

This also stimulated some interesting debates in the breakout groups, see this newsletter for more.

Next steps for OpenAIRE are to migrate all the DRIVER repositories and start to identify publications (and data) outside of FP7, to national and other funding schemes.

Other topics in this newsletter touch on topics such as CRIS/CERIF, how an Open Access publisher makes their publications more visible via OpenAIRE,

As ever spreading the word on Open Access is our mantra so we include some interesting initiatives for you to keep abreast of activities!

Always on the lookout for data or publication initiatives to grow our content, so, if you are a

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Happy reading…..