Connect - Research Community Gateway
Turn Open Science into practice.
Share and link your research results.
Across organizations, across borders.
Customized to your needs.
A Virtual Research Environment
An overlay platform making it easy to share, link, disseminate and monitor all your publications, data, software, methods. In one place.
Open Science in action
A time-saving bundle of services for researchers to effortlessly practice open science. An integral part of the European Open Science Cloud.
The Research Community Gateway is a service developed by OpenAIRE-Connect, which fosters transparent evaluation of results and facilitates reproducibility of science for research communities by enabling a scientific communication ecosystem supporting exchange of research products (publications, data, software, methods) and links between them across communities and across content providers.
Community-oriented Open Science publishing tools
Scientists can continue using RI services and publishing practices, but, if needed, can find support for publishing/interlinking any kind of products.
Collaborative curation of a community-specific scholarly communication graph
An environment for the community to share, discover, interlink, gather and reuse (reproduce) scientific results. Powered by the OpenAIRE Research Graph.
Community-oriented Reporting and Open Science monitoring
Reporting to funders, development of scientific reward strategies inclusive of all products of science.
Researchers can use the Community Gateway to: Search, Monitor, Deposit and Link research results adhering to Open Science practices.
SEARCH - Search & browse your community's research products
MONITOR - View statistics for your community's research products
DEPOSIT - Find a repository to deposit your research outcome
LINK - Link your research output with your community, funding, and other research products
> Go to connect.openaire.eu, find and enter the gateway of your research community
> You can access the functionalities also from the menu on the top right:
Select the Search option and choose which entity you want to search within the Community.
Select the view Graph Analysis and find the Community statistics.
Select the Deposit option and find repositories and journals to deposit or publish your research results by Datasource type, Compatibility and Country. Find the relevant Zenodo communities that have been selected by the gateway curators.
Note: For this action you have to subscribe to the Research Community. Go to the top of the Community Gateway page and click on the button “Subscribe”.
As a subscriber of a Community Gateway you can start linking research results to the Community.
Select the menu option: Link > Start linking, and then follow the steps:
1. Start searching Research Results and add them to the Basket to Link
Or
Links Basket
Once you have selected the research results to link, go to the Links Basket and click the button:
“CONTINUE TO - LINK TO”
2. Select the type of Entity to Link to your sources
i) Select: Communities
As you are linking through the Community Gateway, the Research Community is already selected, but you can confirm or edit it in the section “LINK TO” in the Links Basket.
3. Click on “FINISH LINKING”.
4. LINKING CONFIRMATION
Your link it’s successfully finished!
Additional information
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> More information about OpenAIRE-Connect at connect.openaire.eu
OpenAIRE has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreements No. 777541 and 101017452 (see all).
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