OPERAS Initial Technical Design (OPERAS-PLUS Deliverable 5.1)

This document offers a comprehensive overview of the current OPERAS portfolio of services, summarising the development activities and key components utilised or integrated within the portfolio. It highlights the diverse range of services offered and their significance in covering the social sciences and humanities (SSH) research landscape and how they are managed. A final report will be delivered at M36.

OPERAS offers a comprehensive approach to scholarly communication, supporting the entire cycle of scholarly communication and enabling greater community control over openness and accessibility. OPERAS aggregates, federates, and scales up resources, providing services to increase the overall quality of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research.

The OPERAS service portfolio has grown, and as a result, services were re-grouped into eight categories: Discovery, Analytics, Quality Assurance, Research4Society, Multilingualism, Training, Operational and Collaboration Tools.