OpenAIRE CONNECT is a platform-as-a-service that enables research communities, research performing organizations and research infrastructures to create customized web portals for discovering and sharing their research outcomes and Open Science practices. It supports both public and private settings, integrates Open Science for enhanced collaboration, and offers rapid setup and branding customization. In short, a virtual gateway for your community, however you define it.

OpenAIRE CONNECT significantly improves the visibility and dissemination of research within and beyond the community, connecting it to the wider scientific landscape.

This service was created for use by research communities that want to gather their research outcomes, currently scattered across multiple repositories and archives, into a single entry-point, such as:

  • Research projects, that want research outcomes related to a specific research topic to be collected at a single entry-point
  • Research infrastructures, that want to track the research outcomes produced thanks to the resources they offer
  • University alliances, that require a single entry-point to all research outcomes of their alliance members

Learn the process.

Build a Gateway to your community's open and linked research outputs. Customized to your needs.
You donโ€™t have to go alone.
We work with you in 4 collaborative steps to identify your needs, putting in practice our expertise on open science so you get the most out of OpenAIREโ€™s operational services.
1. Understanding your needs
First, we learn about your requirements and challenges. We help you understand Open Science practices within EOSC and together weโ€™ll talk about how OpenAIRE RCD fits as a solution.
2. Develop a pilot
How do you work today, and how would you like to work tomorrow? We translate your needs into rules and processes and we configure operational OpenAIRE services. By the end of this phase, weโ€™ll have defined the basic configuration of your Community Gateway.
3. Test and Validate
You validate and test your new Community Gateway (portal) with your experts and community to ensure all workflows are in place and quality of data meets your standards. If needed, we work together in another iteration to further refine and adapt to your needs.
4. Roll out the service
We jointly roll out your new Community Gateway. You take over the business operations and start engaging your researchers, we take care of the smooth operation of the e-service.

Find the best for your community.

Profile
Edit community information, change logo url, add community managers or organizations related to community.
Content
Manage projects, content providers, subjects and zenodo communities that are related to the research community.
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Links
Manage user claims related to the research community.
Help texts
Add or edit help text in research community pages.
Users
Invite more users to subscribe, manage community subscribers, your personal info and notification settings.

Our mission for an Open and FAIR science.

A Virtual Research Environment

A Virtual Research Environment

An overlay platform making it easy to share, link, disseminate and monitor all your publications, research data, research software, methods. In one place.

  • done Access to OpenAIRE research graph
  • done Moderated, front-end linking
  • done Cross-platform search
Open science in action

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.

  • done Use of OpenAIRE Guidelines
  • done Publish and get DOIs with Zenodo
  • done EOSC Single Sign-On
Customized to your needs

Customized to your needs

A Gateway with your own brand, rules for aggregation, text & data mining, and presentation. Run by you via a simple, yet powerful backend administration tool.

  • done Access control
  • done Look & feel to match your brand

We look forward to working together and helping you unlock the full potential of your research community through open science.

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