Welcome to the OpenAIRE Guidelines. The intention of this is to provide a public space to share OpenAIREs work on interoperability and to engage with the community. The OpenAIRE Guidelines helps repository managers expose publications, datasets and CRIS metadata via the OAI-PMH protocol in order to integrate with OpenAIRE infrastructure.
OpenAIRE Guidelines have been released for publication repositories, data archives and CRIS systems respectively:
literature/index data/index cris/index
The guidelines specifically provide guidance on how to specify:
- Access right
- Funding information
- Related publication and datasets.
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Moving forward towards Open Science these guidelines are drafted for consultation and community feedback.
You are invited to participate by commenting or editing the content. See our guide for how to get started:
contributing
The OpenAIRE Validator service http://validator.openaire.eu allows to test your repository's compatibility with the OpenAIRE Guidelines.
If validation succeeds the data source can be registered for regular aggregation and indexing in OpenAIRE. OpenAIRE allows for registration of institutional and thematic repositories registered in OpenDOAR, research data repositories registered in re3data, individual e-Journals, CRIS, aggregators and publishers.
The European Commission has published Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data (version 1.0, 11-Dec-2013). By following the literature it is ensured that specific requirements on bibliographic information about Open Access publications are met. These requirements are summarized here:
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