DRAFT: OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers v4 — OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers 4.0.0 documentation

"By implementing these Guidelines, repository managers will not only be enabling authors who deposit publications in their repository to fulfill the EC Open Access requirements, and eventually also the requirements of other (national or international) funders with whom OpenAIRE cooperates, but also incorporating their publications into the OpenAIRE infrastructure for discoverability and utilizing value-added services provided by the OpenAIRE portal.

The OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers 4.0 are part of a set of OpenAIRE Guidelines that also include the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Archive Managers, the OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS managers, the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Software Repository Managers, and the Guidelines for Other Research Products Repository Managers.

What’s new

In comparison with previous versions of the Guidelines, this version introduces the following major changes:

• an application profile and schema based on Dublin Core and DataCite incl. a new OAI-metadataPrefix

• support of identifier schemes for authors, organizations, funders, scholarly resources

• introduction of COAR Controlled Vocabularies

• compliance with the OpenAIRE Content Acquisition Policy, published on 05-Oct-2018.

How this document is structured

Chapter two provides a brief overview of how to configure and use OAI-PMH for OpenAIRE metadata harvesting. Chapter three describes the application profile. It assignes properties from Dublin Core and DataCite metadata schemes to OpenAIRE fields. Each OpenAIRE field is described in detail by

• the name of the field

• how it is mapped to an element in such metadata schemes

• the cardinality of the field

• definition and usage instructions with regard to allowed values in properties, sub-properties and attributes

• example(s)...."