DRAFT: OpenAIRE Fundamental Guidelines for Repository Managers

This repository will contain the fundamentals of the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Repository Managers and thus be the further development of literature, institutional, thematic, data, and software repositories that contains those resource types and also of other research output.

• Introduction

What’s new

The fundamental guidelines is the basic set of usage and application profile, which will require in the following OpenAIRE guidelines: - Institutional & Thematic repositories - Data archive repositories - Software repositories

This initial version is:

• Full alignment to the OpenAIRE Content Acquistion Policies (CAP, 10.5281/zenodo.1446408 ) published in Aug. 2018.
• The rights element has updated its vocabulary to COAR Access Rights Vocabulary
• Following DataCite, funding statements are moved from contributor to the dedicated field fundingReference.

How to contribute

Your feedback, esp. as a repository manager, is important for us. You can provide us feedback using the following channels:

• by commenting the Data Archive Feedback Document at Google: https://…
• by creating an issue in our guidelines github repository (you need to have a github account): https://github.com/openaire/guidelines-data-archives/issues
• by making annotations on the guidelines pages (you need to have an account for https://web.hypothes.is): just highlight some text and you can annotate the document
• by sending an e-mail to: guidelines (at) openaire . eu