OpenAIRE Content Acquisition Policy: expanding the scope

This poster outlines the new OpenAIRE Content Acquisition Policy released in October 2018, which defines the conditions under which metadata of scientific products collected from content providers in OpenAIRE will be considered for inclusion in the OpenAIRE information space. Policies specify which typologies of objects are mapped into which OpenAIRE entities (literature, dataset, software, other research products) and which are the minimal quality conditions under which metadata can be accepted. With it's new content acquisition policy, OpenAIRE broadens its scope to integrate metadata records of all scientific and research products. This means that OpenAIRE now harvests: publication records of all access levels (open access, closed access/metadata only etc.), publication records with and without funding references, publication records of different research product types in one repository (literature publications, research data, software and other research products). In order to grant that records are included in OpenAIRE, it is vital that the access level of a record is made clear (preferably by an access level statement on record level, alternately by the use of specific OAI-sets) and each record contains a PID (or URL) that resolves to a splash page.