UKB, SURF, and OpenAIRE, three prominent organizations in the field of open knowledge, e-infrastructure, and IT innovation, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in building a search portal for all Dutch research output, soon to be launched at netherlands.openaire.eu.
This portal will replace the previous one, NARCIS, which will be decommissioned in July 2023. It will be a game-changer for researchers, institutions, and the wider public, enabling seamless access to the latest Dutch research outputs. It will also provide journalists, policymakers, and researchers with user-friendly access to tools that will allow them to find interdisciplinary research and drive innovation and change.
This collaboration between UKB, SURF, and OpenAIRE, aims to enhance the efficiency of accessing valuable resources by establishing direct connections between literature repositories, data repositories, and CRIS systems with OpenAIRE's harvester. This new approach represents a notable improvement over the previous method of providing information via Narcis, facilitating more seamless and efficient data retrieval for connecting to the OpenAIRE Graph, and providing feedback from the BROKER service to improve the metadata quality.
OpenAIRE will offer a CONNECT gateway that acts as a single entry-point portal to all Dutch research outputs and funding. The MONITOR service attached to the portal will act as an analytics dashboard to show, amongst others, Open Science uptake within The Netherlands and collaborations between organizations. SURF and UKB will coordinate to make their members’ repositories compliant with the OpenAIRE Guidelines and help them register with OpenAIRE PROVIDE, and offer the opportunity to share the usage statistics of the research output.
Dutch research organizations will be given also the opportunity to benefit from a range of additional services provided by OpenAIRE. The basic services for providers encompass metadata enrichment, such as the inclusion of missing identifiers and links with datasets and projects. In addition, usage counts are made available to providers as a key feature. Furthermore, specialized services, such as data anonymization via Amnesia, citation tracking with OpenCitations, and APC payment options through OpenAPC, will be available for individual organizations. These services cater to the unique needs of organizations seeking to optimize their research workflows and streamline their research processes. For end-users, Single Sign-On via EduGain/SURFconext is enabled wherever feasible, facilitating effortless connectivity of publications with projects.
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