Leiden University joins OpenAIRE
Leiden University has become a member of OpenAIRE, a European non-profit e-infrastructure organisation that supports open science. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) submitted the application on behalf of the university.
The main goal of OpenAIRE is to provide a permanent open infrastructure for scholarly communication for the benefit of European research. OpenAIRE membership thus fits within a broader movement towards greater control over the accessibility of one's own publication output and its dissemination (digital sovereignty). With this membership, the UBL wishes to indicate its support for OpenAIRE’s objectives, its desire to contribute to the further development of OpenAIRE services, and its ability to exert influence on this.
The Netherlands Research Portal within OpenAIRE is a good example of how we can generate more attention for Dutch research output – from publications to data and software. The UBL already supplies information from the university repository to the OpenAIRE portal. In addition, the UBL is a central player in the OpenScienceNL project Dutch Repository Federation (DURF), which has gathered around the portal.
For more information, see the OpenAIRE website.