The OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard: On Blending Scientific Workflows and Scientific Publishing

Abstract

Despite the hype, the effective implementation of Open Science is hindered by several cultural and technical barriers. Researchers embraced digital science, use "digital laboratories" (e.g. research infrastructures, thematic services) to conduct their research and publish research data, but practices and tools are still far from achieving the expectations of transparency and reproducibility of Open Science. The places where science is performed and the places where science is published are still regarded as different realms. Publishing is still a post-experimental, tedious, manual process, too often limited to articles, in some contexts semantically linked to datasets, rarely to software, generally disregarding digital representations of experiments. In this work we present the OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard (RCD), designed to overcome some of these barriers for a given research community, minimizing the technical efforts and without renouncing any of the community services or practices. The RCD flanks digital laboratories of research communities with scholarly communication tools for discovering, publishing, and monitoring interlinked scientific products such as literature, datasets, and software. The benefits of the RCD are show-cased by means of two real-case scenarios: the European Marine Science community and the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) research infrastructure.

Open access books through open data sources: assessing prevalence, providers, and preservation

“…Data were aggregated from a variety of sources, scoped both narrow and wide, and some having exclusively OA book content, while others are general-purpose bibliometric databases. OpenAlex (Priem et al, 2022), The Lens and OpenAire (Baglioni et al, 2022) can all be considered to be broad scholarly bibliometric databases that require a lot of filtering in order to narrow down to the specific information relating to the target group of OA books. The Lens and OpenAire offer no way to select specific OA mechanisms to be included/ excluded, which means that they include all types of OA under one single content metadata tag which is not optimal for research purposes like the one currently at hand.…”

Measuring success for a future vision: Defining impact in science gateways/virtual research environments

“…The support received by D4Science has to be recognized according to specific acknowledgment and citation policies. By relying on this, D4Science is working with OpenAIRE 29 to develop and calculate indicators of the impact of D4Science in the scholarly communication cloud.…”

Realizing virtual research environments for the agri‐food community: The AGINFRA PLUS experience

“…(ii) A research community dashboard realizing a domain-specific access point to search for research content of interest, be it publications, data, projects. This is based on the OpenAIRE specific service 26 enabling to publish research products and interlink them with the OpenAIRE scholarly communication cloud.…”

“…Therefore, by using catalogue item resources it is possible, for example, to execute a model, to access a dataset, to visualize a graph; A research community dashboard realizing a domain‐specific access point to search for research content of interest, be it publications, data, projects. This is based on the OpenAIRE specific service 26 enabling to publish research products and interlink them with the OpenAIRE scholarly communication cloud. A scholarly publishing platform integrated with Pensoft infrastructure, namely the ARPHA Publishing Platform 27 to enable the creation of innovative papers including datasets and methods hosted by the AGINFRA PLUS platform (see Section 3.4). By relying on this platform, users are allowed to mix the narrative of a traditional paper with links aiming at giving effective access to the digital version of the research products.…”