Members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)’s Open Repositories Working Group (ORWG) have released a suite of resources designed to get Canadian repositories’ contents reflected in the OpenAIRE discovery service.
In January 2018, CARL entered into a collaboration with OpenAIRE as part of the OpenAIRE Advance project. The ultimate aim of this collaboration is to provide a gateway to Canadian scholarly content.
The ORWG undertook a pilot project in 2020-2021 through which several repositories have become compliant with OpenAIRE’s Literature Repository Guidelines v.4 and have had their content successfully harvested into the OpenAIRE platform: the National Research Council (NRC)’s digital repositories, the Eprint repository at Concordia (Spectrum) and the DSpace repository at Queen’s University (QSpace). In addition, all Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) metadata are now also compliant with OpenAIRE Data Repository Guidelines and are being harvested. A Canadian portal within OpenAIRE is currently available in beta version, and allows for narrowing of results according to Canadian federal funding agency.
Based on feedback from the pilot and discussions with OpenAIRE, the ORWG’s OpenAIRE Task Group has developed extensive documentation that includes a step-by-step decision tree, guidance for OpenAIRE metadata compliance, and a FAQ to support the Canadian repository community in ensuring their repository contents are represented in OpenAIRE, either through direct implementation of the OpenAIRE Guidelines into their repository, or by having the metadata from their repository harvested via the Canada Research aggregator. The eight documents that make up this suite of documentation are now listed as part of the “CARL Collaboration with OpenAIRE” project pages on the CARL website.
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