Kulturpool

The cultural pool offers a central access to digital Austrian cultural heritage resources and also points to objects archived in Phaidra. The objects are also used in schools.

OpenAIRE

OpenAIRE stands for Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe and is a pan-European research platform with services for finding, storing, linking and analyzing research results across all disciplines.The aim is to promote and implement the guidelines of the European Commission (EC) and the European Research Council (ERC) in the field of science and research funding. OpenAIRE supports the Open Access mandate and the Open Research Data pilot in Horizon 2020 and has been in its fourth cycle since January 2018 with OpenAIRE Advance.At its heart is the OpenAIRE portal, which acts as a kind of meta-repository linking research output - from publications and data to other formats - with funding bodies and researchers. It is based on compliance with institutional and subject-specific repositories, data archives and journals.In addition to the technical infrastructure, OpenAIRE relies on the personnel network of over 60 partner institutions. In all countries of the European Union as well as in Switzerland, Norway, Serbia, Iceland, Israel and Turkey, there are so-called NOADs (National Open Access Desks) - local contacts for researchers, research administrators or open access officers in all matters relating to open science. You can find the video on the 10th anniversary of OpenAIRE here.

Project cycles

OpenAIRE (duration: 2009-2012) was launched as part of the European Union's FP7 research and innovation funding program. The first objective was to support the European Commission's Open Access Pilot and to establish a Europe-wide Open Access infrastructure in the form of the OpenAIRE portal. The portal was already up and running in 2010 and has been continuously developed ever since. Work was also carried out on an orphan repository in collaboration with CERN during the first project cycle. The idea behind this is to provide a repository for scientists conducting research in EU projects who do not have access to a thematically relevant or institutional repository.

In the second project OpenAIREplus (duration: 2011-2014), intensive work was carried out on expanding the aggregated output by involving national funding bodies and increasing the number of linked data providers and repositories. The orphan repository was further developed, resulting in the now well-known Zenodo, which is still hosted by CERN.

In OpenAIRE2020 (2015-mid 2018), the open access publication of peer-reviewed articles produced as part of EU projects became mandatory with the start of the new EU funding program Horizon 2020. In addition to supporting researchers in implementing this mandate, OpenAIRE accompanied the Open Research Data pilot under Horizon 2020, focusing on the topic of research data management in all its facets.

The fourth project cycle OpenAIRE Advance (duration: 2018-2020) is all about Open Science. As an important European e-infrastructure for Open Science, OpenAIRE provides preliminary work for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The cloud aims to enable scientists and students from all disciplines to openly access and use research data.

Further information:

Target group-specific information on OpenAIRE for scientists, repository managers, data providers, NCPs or research services and funding bodies

Information on Open Science in Austria on the OpenAIRE website.

EUROPEANA LIBRARIES

The University of Vienna is one of 26 institutions taking part in this project, which aims to make valuable digital objects from museums, collections and archives available on a Europe-wide platform in which numerous European libraries are to participate in the future.

Europeana Local

The European Commission supports the creation of a European Digital Library - Europeana, which offers quick and easy access to European books, documents and works of art. Digitized books, films, paintings, newspapers, sounds and archive documents from all over Europe can be accessed here at the click of a mouse.