CONNECT
What is CONNECT?

A brief overview.

What is CONNECT?

OpenAIRE CONNECT is a platform-as-a-service that empowers research communities, organisations, and infrastructures to effortlessly create, configure, and manage custom web portals. These portals facilitate the collection and sharing of research outcomes and Open Science practices, tailored to the needs of specific audiences. Supporting both public and private modes, OpenAIRE CONNECT integrates Open Science to foster collaboration, while offering quick setup and easy branding customization. In essence, it’s a virtual gateway for your community—defined exactly as you see fit. OpenAIRE CONNECT significantly improves the visibility and dissemination of research within and beyond the community, connecting it to the wider scientific landscape.

Researchers can use the Community Gateway to: Search, Deposit and Link research results adhering to Open Science practices.

SEARCH

Discover research products in your community

A view of the OpenAIRE Graph configured by experts of your research community who want to help you out with the data and literature deluge DEPOSIT - Find a repository to deposit your research outcome.

DEPOSIT

Deposit or publish your research in Open Access

Find the appropriate repository to deposit your research products of any type (publication, research data, research software, other) or to include in your data management plan.

LINK

Link your research

Help growing the record of research of your community: link your research product with your community, funding, and other research products.

Mission

A Virtual Research Environment

An overlay platform making it easy to share, link, disseminate and monitor all your publications, research data, research software, methods. In one place.

Access to OpenAIRE Graph
Moderated, front-end linking
Cross-platform search

Open Science in action

A time-saving bundle of services for researchers to effortlessly practice open science. An integral part of the European Open Science Cloud.

Use of OpenAIRE Guidelines
Publish and get DOIs with Zenodo
EOSC Single Sign-On

Customized to your needs

A Gateway with your own brand, rules for aggregation, text & data mining, and presentation. Run by you via a simple, yet powerful backend administration tool.

Access control
Moderated, front-end linking
Look & feel to match your brand

Who is it for?

Research Initiatives, University Alliances & Networks

That require a single entry-point to all research outcomes of their alliance members.

Research Communities & Projects

That need to create personalised research gateways for a specific topic and share the information with their peers.

Research Infrastructures

That require support in enhancing discovery within their field, showcasing their impact, and streamlining reporting processes.

Researchers

Who can freely access publicly available CONNECT gateways.

How to build your Gateways

OpenAIRE CONNECT gateways are powered by the OpenAIRE Graph, a vast collection of open research data sourced from over 2,000 trusted providers, including repositories, publishers, research systems, and scholarly services like Crossref, DOAJ, ORCID, and Datacite. The data is enhanced and validated using automated processes, including text mining and AI algorithms, to detect duplicates and extract key information from Open Access publications, such as funding details and dataset links. For more information on the graph’s construction, click here.

Community curators, who are experts in their fields, use the admin tool to define the criteria for determining the relevance of research products to their specific community.

Each time a new version of the OpenAIRE Graph is released, an automated process applies these criteria to identify the relevant subset for each community. This customized view of the OpenAIRE Graph is made available for discovery in the CONNECT Gateway, accessible through the OpenAIRE API, and published as a metadata snapshot on Zenodo every six months.