A new research portal for the Netherlands on OpenAIRE

The Netherlands Research Portal aims to connect Dutch research to a broad audience of national and international researchers, journalists, policy makers and companies. The new portal gives a good overview of the Dutch research landscape. Universities and research organizations provide content to the portal.

OpenAIRE harvests metadata about research output (publications, datasets, software, and other research products) from a range of institutional repositories, national and institutional research information portals, data repositories, and software repositories.

The initiative is supported by SURF (collaborative organization for IT in research and education), UKB (a partnership of university libraries and the national library), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), SHB (libraries of the applied universities), Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centers (NFU) and Universities of the Netherlands (UNL).

How to use it?

As of 3 July 2023, NARCIS, the former Dutch national research portal, is officially discontinued. Most functions of NARCIS are now available on the OpenAIRE portal. The portal is still in development and some of the functionality differs from NARCIS.

Important functional improvements include an advanced search function, new classification methods based on artificial intelligence, advanced linking and better monitoring. The Monitor Dashboard shows metrics on for example Open Science, funding and collaborations. Where NARCIS offered a basic overview of open versus closed content, the dashboard includes much more information such as the type of Open Access (green, gold, hybrid, bronze), the organizations in the search set, funders, data sources, top journals, etc.

More information?

Curious? Check out the new research portal at: netherlands.openaire.eu/. Or read full press release.