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OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers v 4.0 are now available!

After a long consultation period, we are pleased to announce the new version of the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature repositories.

The Guidelines have been gradually improved over the past year taking into account comments and feedback received from partners and other initiatives, and the recent developments in OpenAIRE such as the new Content Acquisition Policy.

The Guidelines are intended to guide repository managers to expose to OpenAIRE open access and non-open access publications together with funding information, where applicable.

What's new?

The Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers v 4.0 introduce the following major changes:

• application profile and schema based on Dublin Core and DataCite, including a new OAI-metadataPrefix
• support of identifier schemes for authors, organisations, funders, and scholarly resources
• introduction of COAR Controlled Vocabularies
• compliance with the OpenAIRE Content Acquisition Policy

How does this affect you?

By implementing the OpenAIRE Guidelines you enable authors who deposit publications in your repository to fulfil the EC Open Access requirements, and eventually also the requirements of other (national or international) funders with whom OpenAIRE cooperates. It also helps to incorporate publications into the OpenAIRE infrastructure for discoverability, and utilise value-added services provided by the OpenAIRE portal.

What's next?

In the coming months, OpenAIRE will foster a swift implementation of the Guidelines in the two major repository platforms, DSpaceand EPrints.

Want to learn more?

Have a look at the webinar introducing the new version of these guidelines and also consult the full-text guidelines.

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• Last updated on 04 December 2018