OpenAIRE and OPERAS have joined the second wave of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation as a candidate node, officially recognized by the European Commission and the EOSC Federation. The new EOSC Scholarly Commons Node is intended to integrate scholarly communication into the EOSC framework, ensuring that research dissemination and validation are embedded within the broader European research infrastructure.
The Scholarly Commons Node introduces a service stack of 15 established tools (at TRL 8–9, with one at TRL 7) covering the research lifecycle. These include:
• Discovery & Monitoring: Access to the OpenAIRE Graph (250M+ records) and GoTriple (20M+ documents), alongside services such as EXPLORE and CONNECT for dashboards.
• Data Management: Tools like Argos for machine‑actionable Data Management Plans.
• Research Assessment & Outreach: Dashboards (MONITOR) aligned with CoARA principles, repository registration via PROVIDE, and impact tracking.
• Publishing & Peer Review: Support for Diamond Open Access publishers (EDCH), standardized peer review information (PRISM), and usage metrics for open access books (Metrics).
• Standardization & Interoperability: Adoption of OpenAIRE Guidelines, integration of the Scholix framework, and interoperability via ScholeXplorer.
Three new use cases will demonstrate the node’s value: connecting national research outputs to the European scholarly graph, offering multilingual Social Sciences and Humanities resources with bibliometric analysis, and linking data infrastructure services with FAIR Data Management Plans.
OpenAIRE noted that scholarly communication should be recognized as a central element of EOSC, already embedded in researchers’ daily workflows from discovery to reuse. The organization stated that collaboration with OPERAS strengthens the link between infrastructures, Diamond OA publishing, and SSH communities, while contributing to a federated European research data space.
For researchers, the Scholarly Commons Node simplifies discovery across disciplines and languages, supports responsible assessment aligned with CoARA, and provides tools such as MyResearchFolio for showcasing impact. Institutions gain resources to manage digital sovereignty, promote societal impact, and ensure transparent evaluation.
The node contributes to EOSC’s mission of treating science as a public good by supporting Diamond Open Access, fostering citizen engagement through tools like Hypotheses and VERA, and enabling evidence‑based policymaking with transparent monitoring services. By joining the EOSC Federation, OpenAIRE and OPERAS represent more than 130 member institutions across Europe, reinforcing the European Research Area as a trusted and sovereign environment for open scientific knowledge.
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