* Interconnecting, discovering, tracing, measuring research and its impact *
Preventing monopolies in knowledge infrastructure: subscription revenues decline in the transition to OA, publishers prioritize other sources of revenue, but the growing ownership of data analytics, hosting, and portal services by commercial scholarly publishers is still a concern. The OpenAIRE Research Graph is expected to be a game changer in open scholarly communication and in EOSC, being openly accessible, curated, decentralized, and trusted. The OpenAIRE-Nexus DISCOVER and MONITOR portfolios will favor a global and institutional cultural shift towards open methodologies, collaborative efforts and shared costs, bringing an end to the monopoly of closed, commercial services (e.g. Scopus/SciVal, Web of Science), and opening up the market to smaller innovative players.
Incentives to Open Science - an open metrics infrastructure environment: New credit and impact indicators for reward, career assessment processes, must be identified, possibly within the context of a trusted, open metrics infrastructure. The OpenAIRE-Nexus MONITOR portfolio sets fundamental brick of this infra, through the following community-governed services.
Intelligent, scientific-intent metrics and discovery: In response to the growth rate of scientific articles and related research objects (e.g. data, software), reliable and comprehensive metrics and indicators of the scientific impact of research, research institutions, individual researchers are becoming urgent. The OpenAIRE Research Graph, OpenCitations, ScholExplorer, OpenAIRE-Nexus DISCOVER and MONITOR portfolios introduce novel OS metrics, opening new frontiers on the quality and transparency of research discovery and evaluation.
* Increasing scientific collaboration through digital transformation and open science *
Open Science publishing workflows would benefit from an “horizontal” cross-community infrastructure. OpenAIRE-Nexus PUBLISH portfolio services advance the status-quo, being connected to EOSC via established or emerging standards (federated AAI) and guidelines (OpenAIRE Guidelines for content providers), supporting overlay journals using existing investments (repository), enabling service to API-deposit into Zenodo.org using Amnesia for GDPR compliance before publishing, linking ARGOS’ DMPs to local policy and infrastructure. Its full portfolio of services brings to research communities the elements to fill the functional gaps, if any, to adopt common polices and guidelines, and to fully embrace uniform open science practices.
