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Building EOSC together:
The role of OpenAIRE

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is the European initiative to build a federation of nodes, creating a unified environment for researchers to store, manage, and reuse data across disciplines and borders. It aims to make scientific data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) for millions of European researchers.

OpenAIRE in EOSC
As a core service provider for the EOSC EU Node, OpenAIRE brings over 15 years of experience in building connected research infrastructures. Partnering with us offers an effective and economical path to enriching your national node. We leverage scholarly communication as the glue to build a fully interoperable landscape where content and services are seamlessly connected. We handle the details that ensure broad coverage, from high-level policy to the long tail of science, because our core business is to build functional, sustainable networks that serve all research communities.
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Scholarly Communication & Open Science

Scholarly communication is integral to all research processes in every research performing organisation. It is the way researchers discover, exchange and share knowledge with peers; it is the way institutions have structured their organisational support and operate long established mechanisms to faciliate this exchange. 

1. Services

OpenAIRE provides a comprehensive suite of services and expert support to help EOSC Nodes build and operate their infrastructure. All our services are fully compliant with the EOSC Federation rules, including AAI and EOSC Interoperability Framework, and are offered with flexible deployment models, either as fully managed services or for local deployment with our expert support. This approach ensures seamless integration with the EOSC Federation and is designed to support the full research lifecycle, from initial planning to final impact assessment.

Establish Your Foundation

First, connect your national research infrastructure to the EOSC. PROVIDE is the foundational gateway that enables you to onboard your local content providers, repositories, CRIS systems, and journals. We handle the complex work of metadata aggregation and standardization, ensuring everything you connect is instantly interoperable.
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Deliver Transparent Accounting

Provide trustworthy metrics to your stakeholders. We equip your node with UsageCounts, the official EOSC Accounting Service. This allows you to offer a standardized, COUNTER-compliant service for tracking the engagement of research outputs, demonstrating value and transparency to your national community.
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Build Your National Knowledge Graph

Once connected, we build your National Knowledge Graph. This service takes your onboarded content and weaves it into the OpenAIRE Graph, providing a rich, contextualized map of your country's research landscape. It’s the central nervous system for your node, linking publications, data, people, and funding in a powerful, machine-readable format.
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Launch Your National Discovery Portal

With a powerful graph in place, you need a public window. We provide EXPLORE, a turnkey solution to launch a nationally branded discovery portal. This service equips you with a user-facing platform for your community to discover and engage with the research you've just connected, making your national scientific output visible to the world.
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Steer Your Strategy

Finally, gain the strategic oversight you need. MONITOR provides you with powerful dashboards to track your node’s progress, assess policy compliance, and analyze your national research impact. This empowers you to make data-driven decisions and report on your contributions to the wider EOSC Observatory.
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Offer Advanced Planning Tools

Equip your researchers with best-in-class tools. We enable you to offer ARGOS as a service to your community. This provides a powerful DMP and planning orchestrator, allowing you to embed Open Science and FAIR-by-design principles directly into the research workflows you support at a national level.
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2. People

National Open Access Desks

A European Open Science network
OpenAIRE operates a network of 37 National Open Access Desks - NOADs in every member/associated country. The NOAD network acts as a learning environment supporting EC's and national Open Science mandates across Europe. They are Open Science experts in HEIs, data centres, funding agencies and participate in infrastructure consortia. They provide regular advice at national level about all aspects of Open Science. 

NOADs in Action

Support & train

Create and provide material and hands-on support to edcucate researchers, content providers, research managers how to practice Open Science.

Align policies

Support organisations and countries to set up fit-for-purpose policies that serve local needs through the use of commonly adopted Toolkits and policy models.

Monitor Open Science

Monitor and report on Open Science uptake at member state via detailed information on our country pages. 

Operate infrastructure

Shape and participate in national Open Science infrastructure via services. 

    Resources

    OpenAIRE White Paper

    Sept 2019

    A detailed overview of where OpenAIRE is placed in EOSC.

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    OpenAIRE Services in EOSC

    Infographic May 2021

    List of OpenAIRE Services that help researchers and institutions comply with EOSC.

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    3 pillars of OpenAIRE in EOSC

    Infographic Nov 2022

    Positions the OpenAIRE Graph and the three pillar areas of OpenAIRE actions: Policy-Services-Training.

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      Read what our NOADs say about EOSC

      Liisi Lembinen

      University of Tartu
      "University of Tartu Library is actively involved in spreading Open Science culture in Estonia. For this purpose, the library is heavily involved in establishing Open Science policy framework (including OS competence center), teaching research data management, introducing OS requirements in publishing and funding, organizing dissemination events, and engaging in OS related collaborations in Estonia and Europe."

      Gintare Tautkeviciene

      Kaunas University of Technology
      "To develop the national open science policy and workplan, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport is planning to set up a task force for open science by the end of 2019."

      Biljana Kosanovic

      University of Belgrade
      "On the national level we initiated the TONuS (Team for Open Science in Serbia), which started working to include all stake-holders in Serbia, from researchers, via e-infrastructure and libraries to policy and funder decision makers (Ministry). All OS-facilitators in EU projects are also member of this group."