Abstract
Despite the hype, the effective implementation of Open Science is hindered by several cultural and technical barriers. Researchers embraced digital science, use “digital laboratories” (e.g. research infrastructures, thematic services) to conduct their research and publish research data, but practices and tools are still far from achieving the expectations of transparency and reproducibility of Open Science. The places where science is performed and the places where science is published are still regarded as different realms. Publishing is still a post-experimental, tedious, manual process, too often limited to articles, in some contexts semantically linked to datasets, rarely to software, generally disregarding digital representations of experiments.
In this work we present the OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard (RCD), designed to overcome some of these barriers for a given research community, minimizing the technical efforts and without renouncing any of the community services or practices. The RCD flanks digital laboratories of research communities with scholarly communication tools for discovering and publishing interlinked scientific products such as literature, datasets, and software. The benefits of the RCD are show-cased by means of two real-case scenarios: the European Marine Science community and the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) research infrastructure.
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OpenAIRE: www.openaire.eu.
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EOSC: https://www.eosc-portal.eu.
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European Plate Observing System (EPOS): https://www.epos-ip.org.
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EuroMarine: https://www.euromarinenetwork.eu.
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FOSTER definition of Open Science: https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-taxonomy/open-science-definition.
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OpenAIRE Guidelines for Content Providers: https://guidelines.openaire.eu.
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OpenAIRE National Open Access Desks: https://www.openaire.eu/contact-noads.
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DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).
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Some data sources aggregated by OpenAIRE do not allow to re-distribute metadata in CC0; the availability of another version of the graph including only information that can be redistributed in CC0 is in OpenAIRE’s plans.
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Guide about the OpenAIRE Usage Statistics Service: https://www.openaire.eu/guides-usage-statistics.
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Zenodo communities: https://zenodo.org/communities/.
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Some of gateways are still in private mode and cannot be accessed.
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Relevant resources for the Marine Science community: SeaDataNet (https://www.seadatanet.org), EMODnet (http://www.emodnet.eu/), Copernicus (https://www.copernicus.eu), MarineRegions (http://www.marineregions.org/), World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (http://www.marinespecies.org/), PANGAEA. Data Publisher for Earth and Environmental Science (https://www.pangaea.de/), European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/), International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES, https://www.ices.dk), DRYAD (https://datadryad.org).
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Fondation Tara Expéditions: https://oceans.taraexpeditions.org.
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European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC): http://www.embrc.eu/.
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European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO): http://emso.eu.
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The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES): https://www.ices.dk.
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SciCrunch: https://scicrunch.org/.
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This work is partly funded by the OpenAIRE-Advance H2020 project (grant number: 777541; call: H2020-EINFRA-2017) and the OpenAIRE-Connect H2020 project (grant number: 731011; call: H2020-EINFRA-2016-1). Moreover, we would like to thank our colleagues Michele Manunta, Francesco Casu, and Claudio De Luca (Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, CNR, Italy) for their work on the EPOS infrastructure RCD; and Stephane Pesant (University of Bremen, Germany) for his work on the European Marine Science RCD.
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Baglioni, M. et al. (2019). The OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard: On Blending Scientific Workflows and Scientific Publishing. In: Doucet, A., Isaac, A., Golub, K., Aalberg, T., Jatowt, A. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11799. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8_5
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