Providing access to research data, publications and current research information at Data Archiving and Networked Services - DANS

Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) promotes sustained access to digital research data in the Netherlands. Researchers can deposit their data through the online archiving system EASY. Via the portal NARCIS the research data are shown in context, namely in relation to publications, and other research information. Both EASY and NARCIS contain grey literature like archaeological reports, data documentation, doctoral thesis, conference papers, patents, and technical documentation of universities and other research institutes

D8.3 Research Impact Services: OpenAIRE 2020

This deliverable relates to the work carried out under task T8.3, “Research Impact Services”. The task’s focus is on the development of pilots with selected National funding agencies and infrastructure initiatives in order to serve them with the OpenAIRE research impact suite of services. A major service that OpenAIRE provides is the linking of research results to funding. Aside from importing the links from the repositories and journals, OpenAIRE designs, develops and enhances mining algorithms that identify and extract funding information from the text of scientific publications. With the help of NOADs we have initiated bi-lateral, often informal, collaborations with national funding agencies to facilitate mining extraction on their data. This is an on-going activity throughout the duration of the project. Currently the national funding agencies that we are working with are: FCT (Portugal), ARC (Australia), NHMRC (Australia), NSF & NIH (USA), SFI (Ireland), “Ministry of Science Education and Sport” & "Croatian Science Foundation” (Croatia), NWO (Netherlands), and DFG (Germany). This deliverable describes the nature of the data of the identified National funding agencies, as well as their export technologies, and provides the specification of the general-purpose OpenAIRE services required to support research impact measurements

The role of CRIS systems in measuring Open Access publications

Open Access to scientific results - from publications to data - is high on the agenda of science policy drivers. Since long there is no doubt that making your own research available on the web is the best way to gain visibility and impact (Lawrence 2001). The Open Access movement started with calls for self-archiving (Harnad 2001), led to new technological solutions for scholarly communication (Macgregor et al. 2014), conquered the science political area (Budapest Open Access Initiative 2002), and has now reached the stage of being implemented in evaluation schemes. For the latter Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) play an increasing role. In Europe, OpenAire2020 and euroCRIS have joined forces to promote CERIF - an XML based data model - as a standard to exchange research information, and commercial parties (such as PURE and CONVERIS) have in principle agreed to make their systems CERIF compliant. This poster discusses the use of CRIS for monitoring OA. In particular we discuss different definitions of Open Access as implemented in technical systems, and the consequences of applying those different measures to determine the percentage of OA publications of a country. More particular, we present empirical analysis of growth, institutional and disciplinary distribution of Open Access publications based on NARCIS, the RIS portal into the Dutch research landscape. We discuss limitations and differences in OA counts due to different technical solutions. Based on those empirical explorations, we see a need of further methodological research about the metrics of Open Access prior to implementation of some metrics in evaluation schemes. At the same time, we demonstrate the potential of standardized and harmonized research information, and argue for further collaboration to create networked observatories of scholarly activities, in which Open Access is one important indicator

DANS Data Game: Digital or Visual

DANS has developed a game especially for researchers: the DANS Data Game. The game gives an impression of the research data landscape and was specially produced for the 15th anniversary of DANS in 2020. The game is available in .pdf, DANS can send the game via postorder and the game can be played online. Visit dans.knaw.nl for more information

D8.5: EOSC Stakeholder Engagement Report

This document reports on the engagement activities undertaken in the EOSCpilot project and highlights good examples of engagement per stakeholder category. Intentional overlaps exist in certain categories, because a need for interconnection and active dialogue between stakeholder categories was identified early on as a significant issue for successful engagement. This report details the outcomes of the engagement activities throughout the project, following the structure of D8.2 Stakeholder Identification & Engagement Strategy Plan. It provides best practices of engagement by Stakeholder Group, as initially identified and mapped in the first period of the project. The report concludes with a set of recommendations for engagement of the EOSC stakeholder groups after the end of the EOSCpilot project