OpenAIRE collects… 
Content acquisition policy explained
info@openaire.eu | July 2015
OpenAIRE collects:
1. All global Open Access research outputs;
2. Relation to funding information if available, supporting 
FP7 OA pilot, Horizon2020 OA mandate and helping to 
measure research impact;
3. Non-open access material if related to European 
Commission funding information, or related to another 
OpenAIRE affiliated funder.
4. Metadata of research datasets from funded research 
projects or linked with publications in the OpenAIRE
information space. OpenAIRE will expand the current 
policy to other dataset classes (open data).
Content acquisition policy: 
REPOSITORIES
Publications in OpenAIRE Data in OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE will expand the current policy to other dataset
classes (Open Access datasets) because OpenAIRE would
like to have some for quality certification. 
OpenAIRE Compatibility status
OpenAIRE
basic
Only Open 
Access content
via driver oai
set
OpenAIRE
2.0
EC funded 
content
via 
ec_fundedres
ources oai set
OpenAIRE
2.0 +
Open Access 
and EC funded 
content
via driver and 
ec_fundedreso
urces oai set
OpenAIRE
3.0
Open Access 
and/or EC 
funded and/or 
National/other 
funded content
via openaire
oai set
In 2014 all the DRIVER OA repositories were brought into OpenAIRE to provide a consolidated and
single entry point for OA publications. For literature repositories, OpenAIRE now specifies different
status of compatibility depending on the guidelines version and the exposed content via OAI-Sets.
REPOSITORY MANAGERS
reduce workload of authors
to fulfill the EC 
Open Access requirements
www.openaire.eu
www.openaire.eu/data-providers/rep-man-toolkit