By k.mcneill | November 13, 2013
Last month, OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) and re3data.org signed a Memorandum of Agreement to “work jointly to facilitate research data registration, discovery, access and re-use” in support of open science. OpenAIRE is an infrastructure for open access that works to track and measure research output (originally designed to monitor EU funding activities). re3data.org is an online listing of research data repositories.
re3data.org and OpenAIRE will exchange metadata in order for OpenAIRE to “integrate data repositories indexed in the re3data.org registry and in turn return information about usage statistics for datasets and inferred links between data and publications.”
For more information, see the OpenAIRE press release on the MoU.
In addition, re3data.org is now mentioned in Nature’s Scientific data’s deposition policy, which encourages the registration of repositories with the service, as well as a collaboration with BioSharing.
In addition, re3data.org has made other recent enhancements, including:
Now users can browse re3data.org repositories by:
- subject
- content type
- country
Furthermore, a re-designed the repository record now groups information into the categories of: general, institutions, terms, and standards. They have added many more repositories in the past few months, so check it out!