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1. OpenAIRE
Open Access Infrastructure for Research In Europe
Gwen Franck
Project assistant OpenAIRE, UGent
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@openaccess_be

2. What is OpenAIRE?
Open Access Infrastructure for Research In Europe
Facilitating the OpenAIRE = aims for the widest possible
Open Access dissemination of and access to research
policy of the output. Offers infrastructure, tools,
European information and helpdesk system.
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3. What does OpenAIRE offer?
1 Helps researchers to
• share and archive
research
• maximize the use of
2 Assistance for
project coordinators
• compliance with
funder’s Open Access
3 Aids data providers
• to make content more
visible
• to make Open Access a
their research output demands daily reality in knowledge
• comply with funder’s • reporting publication management
Open Access demands progress and research • to ensure interoperability
output
• linking publications to with repositories, CRIS
• searching and compiling
datasets systems and project
performance indicators
for a project databases
• linking publications to
data
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4. OpenAIRE & Open Access
Only a few steps towards Open Access through the OpenAIRE portal
• Submit publication to journal of choice
• OA = nice, but not necessary
• Deposit open access version in repository
• Almost all publishers allow this!
• OpenAIRE harvests publications from network
of repositories and makes them visible through
the OpenAIRE portal
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5. Open. Share.
DEPOSIT

6. Researchers:
What’s in it for you?
• Open Access means more visibility for your work
• Opens up research for reuse
• Search function for research output
• Linking publications to data
• Usage statistics
• Archive for research output
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7. Making research
Open Access
increases
Visibility and
Reuse

8. Project coordination:
What does OpenAIRE offer?
OpenAIRE provides you Linking publications to OpenAIRE helps your View and export
with performance Data to facilitate the re- project to comply with publication progress
indicators and use of research output funders’ Open Access reports and integrate
reporting tools and describe research in demands them in project website
its context
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10. OpenAIRE makes
LINKING & REPORTING
of research output easy!

11. Gwen Franck
Project Assistant OpenAIRE, Ghent University
Gwen.Franck@UGent.be
Thank you!
Questions?
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