Aggregator
OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE is a European infrastructure that gathers content from many repositories and links it to its funders, to make it easier to find.
How it connects
Who is behind it
- OpenAIRE funded by European Commission.
- OpenAIRE Guidelines developed by OpenAIRE.
- Zenodo operated by OpenAIRE.
Builds on
- OpenAIRE implements OAI-PMH.
Connects to
- OpenAIRE indexes Zenodo. OpenAIRE and Zenodo have worked closely together since Zenodo launched in 2013; OpenAIRE aggregates and links its records.
- OpenAIRE interoperates with European Open Science Cloud. OpenAIRE is a core service provider for discovery and resource-catalogue services for the EOSC EU Node.
- OpenAIRE interoperates with LA Referencia. Harvests from national nodes under the OpenAIRE guidelines since 2016.
- OpenAIRE is a member of CoARA.
Shapes
- Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information endorsed by OpenAIRE. Listed as a supporter on the Declaration's site; OpenAIRE's own post calls it a signatory.
Related to
- OpenAIRE relates to POSI.
- OpenAIRE relates to Research repository. Gathers content from institutional and other repositories and links it to funding data.
Links
Details
Description
OpenAIRE aggregates content from institutional repositories in Europe and connects it with funding data.
Attributes
| url | https://www.openaire.eu/ |
|---|---|
| identifiers | wikidata: Q25106053 |
| status | active |
| governance | Nonprofit |
| outputLicence | open |
| codebase | open-source |
| prominence | core |
| note | OpenAIRE's software components (e.g. the OpenAIRE Guidelines validator, the research graph tooling) are published as open source across several repositories; not tracked here under a single package-level SPDX id. |
| type | Aggregator |
| aggregatorKind | harvesting-network |
| harvestProtocols | oai-pmh |
| objectScope | article, dataset, thesis |
| Tags | function: aggregation, openness: open governance |
| Geography | eu |
Sources
- https://www.openaire.eu/about(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-09-04)
- https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org/adopters/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-09-04)
- https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-signs-barcelona-declaration-a-catalyst-for-change-in-open-research-information(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): OpenAIRE describes itself as a signatory; the Declaration's own site lists it under Supporters.
- https://www.coara.org/coalition/membership/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): The member list includes "OpenAIRE AMKE".
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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