The EOSC Node Scholarly Commons, operated by OpenAIRE AMKE with OPERAS AISBL, brings Europe’s scholarly communication infrastructure into the EOSC Federation.
The Node provides a scholarly communication layer covering the full research publishing cycle: data management, onboarding, discovery, metrics, peer review and responsible research assessment. It connects universities, repositories, CRIS systems, OA journals, Diamond OA platforms, monographs, SSH archives and multilingual collections, supporting EOSC discovery, monitoring, research assessment, AI-enabled enrichment and digital sovereignty.
Key objective: To provide a dedicated scholarly communication layer within EOSC, integrating services across the research lifecycle and enabling discovery, publishing, monitoring and assessment of research outputs.
Science areas: All scientific disciplines from a perspective that includes social sciences and humanities, scholarly communication, Open Science, research assessment, scientometrics and bibliometrics, and AI in science.
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT
The EOSC Node Scholarly Commons improves the visibility, discovery, monitoring and assessment of research outputs, strengthening links between EOSC, universities, repositories and scholarly publishing ecosystems.
FAIR data
OpenAIRE Graph with 359M+ records and 160K+ sources
Scholexplorer data-literature and data-data links
GoTriple multilingual SSH discovery data
Aggregated metadata from repositories, CRIS systems, OA journals, Diamond OA platforms, monograph catalogues and SSH archives
Scientific use cases
Joint scholarly communication service offering within EOSC
Onboarding European scholarly communication services
Rules of participation and sustainability for scholarly communication services
Node governance under OpenAIRE and OPERAS
Metadata enrichment, discovery and research assessment workflows
Services are free at the point of use to researchers. Some services are available through cloud access, as-a-service mode, or local deployment depending on institutional and Node needs.
