OJS plugins for the integration of the OpenAIRE Broker (CRAFT-OA Deliverable 6.3)

This report presents the development and implementation of a new plugin designed to integrate metadata enrichments from the Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) infrastructure into the Open Journal Systems (OJS). The plugin leverages the OpenAIRE Broker Service to deliver value-added metadata directly to journal editors and journal managers.

OpenAIRE aggregates metadata from numerous sources across the research landscape and enhances it through internal deduplication and enrichment processes. These enrichments, available exclusively to data providers through their OpenAIRE Provide accounts, offer insights and metadata extensions based on inferred relationships and aggregated data. However, when a multi-journal system administrator acts as the registered provider, individual journal editors typically do not have access to these enrichments due to cross-journal data sensitivity.

To address this limitation, the plugin was developed to allow editors and journal managers to view enrichment data related only to their own journal, independently of the OpenAIRE Provide account. By connecting to the OpenAIRE Broker Application Programming Interface (API), the plugin fetches and displays available enrichments for published articles within the scope of the respective journal.

This deliverable is currently under review by the EC.