Open Repositories Conference 2024

Description

Switching the national portal of The Netherlands to OpenAire within six months

In January 2023 the national harvester for The Netherlands (Narcis) announced to stop their services within a few months, leaving The Netherlands without a central portal for their scholarly output. Even though the content of the larger repositories may be well indexed in scholarly search engines, the national portal was important for the visibility of Dutch research output for several reasons. First, the content was not limited to major universities; smaller research organizations and universities were connected and delivered unique materials (e.g. research reports). Second, the audience of Narcis is not just academics: due to its focus on national output and added value such as the experts guide, it was a source of knowledge for journalists, companies and policy makers that are less likely to use scholarly search engines. Third, the content was not limited to publications, but also covered datasets, software and funding information and connected these items through a PID-graph. A taskforce was created to quickly prevent the loss of visibility of the national output. By setting clear goals, monitoring and having a good collaboration with OpenAIRE, a new research portal based on OpenAIRE CONNECT and a Monitor dashboard were set up before July: the Netherlands Research Portal.

Period	04 Jun 2024
Event type	Conference
Location	Göteborg, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International