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Figure 13.3 openAiRe portal (https://www.openaire.eu/search/find/publications
?noscroll=true#publtab).
13.2.2.1 Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
The EC supports initiatives to ensure that research results funded by European
research programs are made freely available to citizens. In this way, open access is a
driver to improve the EU's return on research and development investment, which
has been reinforced in Horizon 2020. In 2008, the Open Access Infrastructure
for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE)* project was launched as an open access
pilot under the previous funding program of the EC (the Seventh Framework
Programme, FP7). It aimed to foster open access practices for researchers by build-
ing support structures, agreements, and alliances to depositing scientific publica-
tions derived from FP7-funded research projects.
As a result, such “support structures” are now realized as a network of digital
repositories that enable free access to scientific content across academic disciplines.
To this regard, the Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
(DRIVER) initiative † sets the background scene to create a cohesive pan-European
infrastructure for open access digital repositories. The OpenAIRE portal (Figure
13.3) is built upon the DRIVER infrastructure to offer open access to scientific
publications across an interrelated network of digital repositories.
* http://www.openaire.eu/en.
† http://www.driver-repository.eu.