OpenAIRE Opening science to all. Together. - Research Infrastructures - Research - European Commission

"OpenAIRE places Europe as a front runner and a key player on the global Open Access movement, and by its enthusiastic human network and community building efforts, it aligns and fills in the gaps in technology and organization of publication repositories in all EC member states. By spreading and implementing the Open Access European policies, it unlocks the research results and makes them public, promoting the role of the citizen-scientist and opening up research opportunities to researchers in smaller research institutes, SMEs or other developing environments. Due to the synchronized and targeted outreach efforts of OpenAIRE, European public research funding has now the chance to have a greater impact on more people...."