OpenAIRE Guidelines
January 27, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
Welcome to the OpenAIRE Guidelines. The intention of this is to provide a public space to share OpenAIREs work on interoperability and to engage with the community. The OpenAIRE Guidelines helps repository managers expose publications, datasets and CRIS metadata via the OAI-PMH protocol in order to integrate with OpenAIRE infrastructure.
Head over to http://guidelines.openaire.eu to read the guidelines.
OpenAIRE Guidelines consists of guidelines for publication repositories, data archives, CRIS systems, software repositories and repositories of other research products respectively:
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature, institutional, and thematic Repositories
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Archives
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers based on CERIF-XML
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for Software Repositories (Deprecated)
- OpenAIRE Guidelines for Repositories of Other Research Products (Deprecated)
Contribution Guidelines
See CONTRIBUTING.rst
Team
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