EOSC Services Need Local Support

For researchers EOSC services are hard to find. Organizational level support services can help to make EOSC services to be better known and to increase the use of them. On the other hand, it is not clear to all organizations how to organize support services, especially if the resources are very limited.

This poster presents work done in the Finnish Open Science Open Data Expert Panel Working Group RDM support services for researcher. One aim of the working group is to make a list of things/capabilities research support services should provide to researchers to help them to use e.g. EOSC services to comply with the requirements of the responsible research data management.

When we relate EOSC services to this work, we have two questions:

Question 1: How to find EOSC services?

Answer 1: Use one of the several portals and catalogues introducing EOSC services:

• eInfraCentral portal, https://einfracentral.eu/basic-page/einfracentral-catalogue
• EGI services and marketplace, https://www.egi.eu/services/ / https://marketplace.egi.eu/
• EOSCHub services portal, https://www.eosc-hub.eu/services
• EOSC Marketplace, https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services
• EOSC-portal, https://www.eosc-portal.eu/
• EUDAT service catalogue, https://eudat.eu/catalogue
• GEANT services, https://www.geant.org/Services
• OpenAIRE portal, http://catalogue.openaire.eu/search
• and probably others not mentioned here

Question 2: Should we instruct researchers to search services from these sources?

Answer 2: No. They are too complicated for searching, if you are not familiar with these services. We need support services helping researcher in finding appropriate services for their discipline and data. This was feedback for example in the OpenAIRE National Event Making sense of Open Science Jungle (6).

Second answer means that we need local support services to enhance the use of the EOSC services.