An Infrastructure for Managing EC Funded Research Output

Abstract. The OpenAIRE project aims at supporting the diffusion and adoption of the European Commission Open Access mandates among researchers in Europe. It will deliver an organizational/technological infrastructure “supporting mechanisms for the identification, deposition, access, and monitoring of FP7 and ERC funded articles”. The organizational infrastructure will provide a European Helpdesk jointly operated by a European network of National correspondents. The technological infrastructure will be based on state-of-the-art software services of the D-NET Software Toolkit developed within the DRIVER and DRIVER-II projects and the Invenio digital repository software developed at CERN. 1 Scenario and Motivations “All research builds on former work, and depends on scientists ’ possibilities to access and share scientific information. The advent of the internet and electronic publishing, have resulted in unprecedented possibilities for the dissemination and exchange of information. ‘Open Access’, defined as free access over the internet, aims to improve and promote the dissemination of knowledge