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Terms of Service
OpenAIRE ToS
v.1.3 12.06.2025
- Application
These Terms and Conditions of Service (henceforth ToS) as may be modified from time to time are legally binding and apply to all users and services provided by OpenAIRE AMKE through one or more of its Partners (Service Providers). By using the Service, you are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions of Service. Any modifications shall be effective upon publication on the Web Service metadata or the Service Provider Web Site.
- Acceptance of ToS
Your continued use of the Service after the modifications are posted signifies your acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions of Service. Any act that violates any of the following conditions makes this agreement not valid and holds you liable in accordance with the provisions of law.
- Interpretation
“You” or ”User”: means an individual or entity exercising rights or undertaking legal obligations under this Agreement who has not previously violated the terms of this Agreement or who has received express permission from the Service Provider despite a previous violation.
“Service Provider”: means the OpenAIRE (Artemidos 6 and Epidavrou, 15125, Maroussi, Athens. Greece) through its Partners:
- CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR), Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, Roma, 00185, Italy. Department ISTI - Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy
- ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS (ARC), Artemidos 6 and Epidavrou, 15125, Maroussi, Athens, Greece. Department Information Management Systems Institute.
- UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI (UNIWARSAW/ICM), Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, Warszawa, 00927, Poland. Department Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling. Tyniecka 15/17, Warszawa, 02630, Poland.
- EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (CERN), Esplanade Des Particules 1 Parcelle, Geneva 23, 1211, Switzerland. Department Information Technology.
- UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO (UMINHO), Largo Do Paco, Braga, 4704553, Portugal. Department Documentation Services, Campus de Gualtar, Edifício 04, Braga, 4710057, Portugal.
- COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES EXPERTS ANONYMOS ETAIREIA SYMVOULEFTIKON KAI ANAPTYXIAKON YPIRESION (CITE), Ethnikis Antistaseos 178, Kaisariani, 16122, Greece. Department R&D.
- UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD (UNIBI), Universitaetsstrasse 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany. Department Bielefeld University Library.
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), Rue Michel Ange 3, Paris, 75794, France.
- ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA (UNIBO), Via Zamboni 33, Bologna, 40126, Italy. Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies.
- RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ INSTITUTE (RBI), Bijenička cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Centre for Scientific Information.
These Terms of Use (ToS) cover the following services:
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Amnesia (See full Terms and Conditions of the service) |
Amnesia modifies personal and sensitive information, eliminates any data privacy breach and exposure of sensitive information. Installed, configured and embedded locally in research operational workflows, it processes and stores files adapting to different needs and dataflows. It uses a variety of algorithms, pseudonymization, k-anonymity and km-anonymity guarantees and demographic statistics to reduce information loss. Amnesia is written in Java and is available to be downloaded for Linux/Windows OS. |
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ARGOS |
Develop and publish your Data Management Plan on the cloud. Use customised dataset templates for different disciplines domains and funders. Connect to infrastructure services via OpenAIRE (ORCID, Funding agencies databases, repositories). Collaborate with your team and share publicly on Zenodo. Also available for institutional use, with local installations customised to your organisation specifications and needs (policy, repository, etc.). |
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OpenAIRE PROVIDE One-stop-shop for sharing, improving and enriching your content Related Services: Broker Metadata enrichment of scholarly records Metadata Validator Check repository compliance with OpenAIRE UsageCounts Measure, Track Open Access repositories usage See full Terms of Use for Content Providers at [https://www.openaire.eu/terms-of-use-for-content-providers] |
OpenAIRE PROVIDE is the content gateway service of OpenAIRE, where data providers are invited to connect scholarly content with OpenAIRE. OpenAIRE PROVIDE allows repositories, data archives, journals, aggregators, CRIS systems, to enter the OpenAIRE and European Open Science (EOSC) ecosystem and be accessible by millions of researchers, research institutes and networks, research funders, policy makers and citizens. OpenAIRE PROVIDE lowers any technological barriers, by supporting a series of integrations, therefore, enabling its users to visually access OpenAIRE's services that are responsible for the data harvesting process. Broker The Broker is a notification service that empowers content providers to enrich or complete the metadata records in their repository, journal or CRIS. It is based on the OpenAIRE Graph (https://graph.openaire.eu/) which aggregates, cleans, deduplicates and interlinks research records from authoritative data sources around the world. It specifically provides information on openness, FAIRness (e.g., ORCIDs and other PIDs, license), usage, references, funding, links to datasets and software. Broker is available through a free subscription to OpenAIRE PROVIDE (https://provide.openaire.eu/) and data exchange is done through the Broker service API (https://graph.openaire.eu/docs/apis/broker-api/) for programmatic access or via the OpenAIRE broker command line client available on GitHub (https://github.com/openaire/broker-cmdline-client). Metadata Validator The OpenAIRE Validator service is used by content providers who wish to register their content to OpenAIRE and allows them to verify that it is compliant with the OpenAIRE Guidelines (https://guidelines.openaire.eu/). The service also checks the quality of implementation of the OAI-PMH protocol. Content providers can use the service after logging into OpenAIRE PROVIDE. If validation succeeds the provider is eligible to register and join the OpenAIRE infrastructure. The providers' content will be regularly aggregated to contribute to the OpenAIRE Graph. OpenAIRE allows for registration of institutional, thematic repositories and research data repositories registered in OpenDOAR or FAIRsharing, CRIS registered in DRIS, Open Access Journals, aggregatorsand publishers. The OpenAIRE Validator service is realised with configurable software that allows users with administrative rights to customise the validation rules to be applied. This feature makes it easier to adapt the service when the OpenAIRE Guidelines are updated and to offer similar services, possibly with different rules and configurations, to third parties. UsageCounts The OpenAIRE UsageCounts service (https://usagecounts.openaire.eu/) collects usage data from Open Science content providers repositories, journals, and other scholarly data sources. Then, it aggregates them, delivering standardized activity reports about research usage and uptake. It complements existing citation mechanisms and assists institutional repository managers, research communities, research organizations, funders, and policy makers to track and evaluate research from an early stage. The resources of the OpenAIRE UsageCounts are available through OpenAIRE PROVIDE where content providers can enable the service, as well as visualise and explore usage statistics. |
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OpenAIRE CONNECT Custom, on-demand, scientific gateways |
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. The service is subject to paid subscriptions. |
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EpiSciences An overlay Open Access journal platform of preprints (See full Terms and Conditions of the Service available at https://www.episciences.org/terms-of-use/ ) |
Episciences is an overlay journal platform that allows researchers to early share openly their research work as a preprint, communicate with the research community their ideas and discoveries, get feedback and claim ownership. The journals hosted by the Episciences platform are diamond open access journals, they adhere to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Researchers save time, money, and effort, and can focus only on their research. The preprints are hosted by open repositories such as arXiv, HAL, Zenodo and are broadly available to the research community. |
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OpenAIRE EXPLORE Discover by searching and outreach by sharing Open Science research |
EXPLORE is an -AI-driven- open science search engine that helps you discover, and outreach validated research content, across various disciplines, sources, and data types available on OpenAIRE Research Graph. It also offers seamless navigation and interaction with the research content, via important third party and OpenAIRE services integrations; ORCID, Altmetrics, OpenAIRE Graph, UsageCounts, B2Note, OpenCitations. EXPLORE is auto updated by aggregating, cleaning, transforming, and inferring content retrieved from OpenAIRE's European and global network of validated open access content providers. |
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OpenAIRE AAI Secure access made easy |
OpenAIRE Login enables researchers to securely access and share common resources and services using identities from eduGAIN, the global network of academic identity federations. For users coming from the industry or citizen scientists who may not have access to eduGAIN, the OpenAIRE Login service supports additional trusted authentication providers, such as social networks, community identity providers and other platforms such as ORCID that can provide federated user identities. OpenAIRE Login allows connecting services using popular protocols, such as OpenID Connect and SAML, to securely authenticate and identify their users, organise them in groups, assign them roles and centrally manage access rights for accessing protected resources. |
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OpenAIRE MONITOR Personalised research monitoring |
An OpenAIRE on-demand service that provides user-friendly, customizable personalised online dashboards of well-documented and timely monitoring indicators of Open Science research activities for institutions, communities, and funders. All information is aggregated, processed and provided by the OpenAIRE Graph (https://graph.openaire.eu). The service is subject to paid subscriptions. |
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OpenAPC Open Access Cost Transparency |
OpenAPC collects, aggregates and publishes data on Open Access journal articles (APCs), Open Access Books (BPCs) and other cost data from participating institutions. It aims at transparency, comparability and tracking of cost developments in the field of Open Access publishing. Therefore, OpenAPC allows libraries, funding agencies, researchers, developers and 3rd party services to keep track and provide access to the Open Access record of European expenditure for APC or other cost data, e.g. from transformative agreements, across publishers, journals, academic institutions and countries. All OpenAPC data is made freely available under the Open Database License (ODBL). OpenAPC complies with current recommendations for cost transparency in an Open Access based scholarly publication system. It is important to point, that all data is provided voluntarily by universities and other HEI, funders or national consortia. Major PlanS cOAlitionS members and supporters e.g. Wellcome Trust, FWF, or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are already contributing data to OpenAPC. |
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OpenCitations Open citations for Open Science |
OpenCitations is an independent not-for-profit infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the publication of open bibliographic and citation data by the use of Semantic Web technologies. It provides more than one billion citations data that can be reused for any purpose and can be accessed via SPARQL endpoints, REST APIs, and that can be downloaded in bulk. |
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OpenOrgs |
OpenOrgs is a specialised tool designed to address the complexities of research organisation identification and disambiguation. It efficiently bridges various research registries, offering a platform for clear and accurate curation of global research entities. Research institutions often appear under different names, acronyms, or identifiers across registries, leading to inconsistencies and complications in information sharing, research discovery, and monitoring activities. OpenOrgs tackles these ambiguities by combining automated processes with human curation, enhancing the discoverability and recognition of organisations. Curated and disambiguated data is integrated into the OpenAIRE Graph, facilitating improved information sharing and monitoring of research activities across OpenAIRE platforms. This service not only enhances the accuracy of institutional affiliations but also supports the global research ecosystem by fostering more efficient and reliable data integration and discovery. |
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Open Science Observatory Understanding the European Open Science landscape |
The Open Science Observatory presents a collection of indicators and visualizations that help interested stakeholders (policy makers and research administrators among others) better understand the Open Science landscape in Europe across countries and subject areas. The platform assists the monitoring, and consequently the enhancing, of Open Science policy uptake across different dimensions of interest, revealing weak spots and hidden potential. Based on the OpenAIRE Research Graph, following Open Science principles and an evidence-based approach, the indicators can be used to provide timely and reliable insights on the evolution of Open Science in Europe and assist in promoting good practices. |
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OpenAIRE Graph Unlock the power of open science data |
The OpenAIRE Graph is one of the largest collections of metadata and links between research entities such as articles, datasets, software, and other research products and entities like organizations, funders, funding streams, projects, research communities, and data sources. The Graph delivers to researchers, funders, communities, publishers, citizens, and SMEs/enterprises an up-to-date, global map of science, across countries and disciplines, which is open and transparent, to be used to boost science and innovation. Its metadata and links are either collected (“harvested”) from 14K+ data sources (e.g., institutional/data/software repositories, publishers, registries) or inferred via mining on an ever-increasing collection of full texts, counting today 19Mi+. Conceived as a public and transparent good, populated out of data sources trusted by scientists, the OpenAIRE Graph aims at bringing the discovery, monitoring, and assessment of science back into the hands of the scientific community and society at large. |
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ScholeXplorer Scholarly Literature & Data interlinking |
Scholexplorer is a service that provides access to the largest collection of Open Access (CC-BY) citations between articles and datasets, articles and software, datasets and datasets, as exposed by Crossref’s EventData, DataCite, EMBL-EBI, and OpenAIRE. Links (and objects) are provided by data sources managed by publishers, data centers, or other organizations providing services to store and manage links between data sets and publications. Scholexplorer aggregates link metadata harvested from the data sources and out of these, it builds harmonised and de-duplicated graphs of scholarly objects. The graph is openly accessible (CC-0) via search REST APIs that return links in Scholix format. |
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Zenodo Research. Shared. (See full Terms and Conditions of the Service available at [https://about.zenodo.org/terms/]) |
Zenodo is a general-purpose repository that enables researchers, scientists, projects and institutions to share, preserve and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data, software, publications, and other research objects) that are not part of the existing institutional or subject-based repositories of the research communities. It is founded in the trustworthy CERN data center and enables everyone to participate in Open Science. Used by more than 200K researchers and 7K communities all over the world. |
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OpenPlato OpenPlato platform (www.openplato.eu)is a comprehensive Learning Management System focusing on Open Science training and material development. |
Funded by OpenAIRE, OpenPlato is the main Open Science hub for training in Research Data Management (RDM), Open Science, and the FAIR principles. OpenPlato is built on Moodle, enhanced with catalogue functionality, and designed for flexibility, multilingual support, and structured content organization. Its alignment with global training metadata standards, like the RDA ETHRD IG recommendations, ensures interoperability and discoverability across training ecosystems. As part of OpenAIRE’s long-standing mission to support Open Science, OpenPlato reflects over a decade of expertise, infrastructure investment, and a vast training network that spans 40+ countries. |
Headings contained in these Terms of Service are for reference purposes only and shall not be deemed to be an indication of the meaning of the clause to which they relate.
Where the context so implies, words importing the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa and words importing the masculine shall include the feminine and vice versa.
4. Intellectual Property Rights
All content related to the service (such as pictures, graphics, photographs, drawings, texts, data, databases, computer programs, applications, services, etc. provided and, in general, all items, data, files of this service) and its structure constitutes intellectual property of the respective rights holders and content providers as specified in the relevant sections of the web platform or service provided to the end user. All IP is protected under the relevant provisions on the protection of copyright and industrial property, in accordance with Greek law, EU law and the international conventions and treaties, as applicable or may constitute intellectual property of third parties for which the necessary licenses have been obtained.
Content providers including repositories guarantee they have sufficient IP rights for uploading such information and they do not infringe intellectual property rights of third parties. They may be requested by OpenAIRE to provide evidence of having the appropriate authorization for publishing content. Unless otherwise specifically stipulated, the content of all services is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License or a subsequent version
5. Protection of Personal Data
Content Providers, repositories and all users disclosing personal data of third parties undertake to take all necessary measures and the exclusive legal and contractual responsibility to secure any necessary consents from natural persons whom details may be included in the Services, so that OpenAIRE may further process such data in accordance with its Privacy Policy. Similarly, content providers, users and any other entity sharing personal data of third parties undertake to inform the data subjects about the details of personal data processing carried out by OpenAIRE.
OpenAIRE shall not be responsible for securing such consents nor shall it be liable for any third party-claims relating to the violation of personal data or personality rights of third parties mentioned in the Services.
6. Limitation of the Service Provider’s Liability- Harmful Content
The Service Provider, without warranting and therefore being responsible, makes every effort to ensure that information and the entire content are governed by the utmost precision, clarity, timeliness, completeness, correctness and availability. The Service Providers shall in no event be held liable for any damage caused to the visitor (s) and user of this Service or its content. The Service Provider does not warrant that the service shall be provided without interruptions and without errors. The Service Provider does not warrant that this website or any other related website or servers through which content is made available to visitors/users are provided free of viruses or other harmful components.
The Service Provider is not responsible for any violation of intellectual property rights or other third-party rights concerning information or material illegally posted through the Service or posted by unauthorized or unlawful persons or mechanisms.
The Service is provided by the Service Provider “as is”. Although the Service Providers and its partners take measures for the availability, dependability, and accuracy of the service, access to the Service, utilization of its features and preservation of the data deposited or produced by the service are not guaranteed. The Service Provider cannot be held responsible for any data loss regarding the Service, ethical or financial damage or any other direct or indirect impact that any failure the service may have on its users.
The Service users are exclusively responsible for their use of content and shall hold OpenAIRE free and harmless in connection with their download and/or use.
The Service Provider may not be held responsible for the content provided or statements made in services created and managed by its users.
All content is provided “as-is”. Users of content (“Users”) shall respect applicable license conditions. Download and use of content from the Service does not transfer any intellectual property rights in the content to the User.
In the case any content is reported as violating third party rights or other legal provisions, ARGOS reserves the right to remove the content from the service until the dispute is legally settled. Any such incidents should be reported at
The Service users are held responsible for the data and information they provide in the service. Users may not add information, data or any other type of artifact that may be malicious, intentionally erroneous and potentially harmful for other Service users, IPR owners and/or the general public.
In case a user of the Service identifies a potential infringement of copyright, harmful or malicious operation, function, code, information or data, shall inform the Service Provider providing sufficient evidence for the identification of the case and the information and/or data challenged.
The Service Provider reserves the right, without notice, at its sole discretion and without liability, (i) to alter or delete inappropriate content, and (ii) to restrict or remove User access where it considers that use of the Service interferes with its operations or violates these Terms of Service or applicable laws.
7. Infrastructure Acceptable Use Policy (Access Rights)
By using or registering in the OpenAIRE Infrastructure any User shall be deemed to accept these conditions of use:
The User shall not use the OpenAIRE Infrastructure for any unlawful purpose and not (attempt to) breach or circumvent any administrative or security controls.
The User shall respect intellectual property and confidentiality agreements.
The User shall protect its access credentials (e.g. private keys or passwords).
The User shall immediately report any known or suspected security breach or misuse of the OpenAIRE Infrastructure or access credentials to the incident reporting locations specified by the OpenAIRE Infrastructure.
Use of the OpenAIRE Infrastructure is at User's risk. There is no guarantee that the OpenAIRE Infrastructure will be available at any time or that it will suit any purpose.
Logged information is used for administrative, operational, accounting, monitoring and security purposes only.
Resource Providers are entitled to regulate, suspend or terminate the User access, within their domain of authority, and the User shall immediately comply with their instructions.
The User is liable for the consequences of violating any of these conditions of use.
8. Use of Third Party Services
This Service may make use of services provided by third parties. The Service Provider does not control the availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality and completeness of the services provided by third parties that are channeled through the Service Provider. The Service Provider does not warrant and may not be held liable for the content and functioning of services consumed by the Service provider.
Therefore, the Service Provider shall not assume any liability for any damage suffered by the visitor/user as a result of the use of third parties’ web pages. These links shall be used in the exclusive responsibility of the visitor/user, and access to them and use thereof shall be subject to the terms specified on them. Therefore, for any question or problem arising during the visit to or use of such, the visitor/user must directly address such instances to the respective third parties, which shall also assume fully the relevant responsibility for the provision of their services. The Service Provider shall in no way be regarded as adopting or accepting the content of these third parties and pages which it links to or is being connected to, in any way.
9. Applicable Law
The terms and conditions of use of this website, as well as any modification or change thereof shall be governed by Greek law, EU law and the international conventions and treaties, Provisions in the ToS that may contravene the above legal framework shall cease to be effective ipso jure and be removed from these ToS, without affecting the validity of the other terms of use. Any disputes that may arise from the implementation of these terms of use by the visitor/user, which cannot be resolved amicably, shall be governed by Greek Law and fall within the competence of the Courts of Athens, Greece or the Law and Courts of the country where the specific service provider resides.
10. Contact
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