Discover Open Research

An open research search portal providing access to millions of interlinked scholarly works (publications, data, software), their citations and contextual information such as organisations, grants. Search and view all types of research outcomes, find repositories to deposit your research, and safely claim/link your research.

  • For
    Providers | Research Projects | Research Organisations | Research Groups | Innovators | Businesses | Researchers | Funders | Policy Makers | Research Communities | Research Infrastructure Managers | Research Managers | Research Networks | Students | Provider Managers | Other
  • TRL
    9 - actual system proven in operational environment
  • Access Type
    Virtual
  • Access Mode
    Free
  • Owned by
    OpenAIRE
  • Provided by
    OpenAIRE
  • Funded by
    The framework programme for research and innovation (H2020)
  • Terms of use

EXPLORE is an AI-driven, open research search engine to help you discover and outreach validated research results available in the [OpenAIRE Research Graph](http://graph.openaire.eu). It integrates content from more than 12K trusted data sources worldwide, providing discovery and navigation to all types of scholalry works (publications, data, software) and links to funding/grants, organisations, metrics, people etc. Linked to a trusted AAI service and using your institutional or ORCID account, you can claim results (e.g., claim publications or datasets to specific grants, datasets to publications) and enrich your project or personal research portfolio. EXPLORE is also provided as an *application platform as a service* (**aPaaS**), helping you setup, customise and operate a dedicated search portal for your country or community. Avoiding all the hassle for taking advantage of the underlying OpenAIRE Research Graph.


Benefits

Use one platform for your discovery needs
Discover and navigate across publications, data, software and other research objects. From trusted sources around the world.
Increase visibility & impact of your work
Find where to deposit and meet OA mandates. Get your work indexed and reachable to a worldwide audience.
Eliminate the effort of aggregating and reporting
Publish in OA and use our app to embed your project's research results in your site. Automatically retrieve results to EC portal for reporting.
Save time and effort to build your Open Science search portal
Chose our application platform as a service (aPaaS) option and build a customised search portal to fit your needs. No hassle of aggregation.

Features

Seamless integrations

With all key scholarly registries (ORCID, OpenDOAR, re3data, DOAJ, RoR), key data sources (OpenCitations, Zenodo, FigShare, PMC Europe, arXiv) and to more than 12K open data sources around the world.

Intelligent linking

Powered by the OpenAIRE Research Graph using semantics (Fields of Science and Sustainable Development Goals), information extraction (data and software citations) and disambiguation to provide more efficient navigation.

Researcher centric

Easy to navigate and access. Accompanied by apps to help you find way to share your research in the open and authoritatively claim your research.

Clean and de-duplicated

Using FAIR principles, disambiguation and de-duplication we ensure the best possible information on each record.

Embedded statistics

Citations and usage. All from open and trusted sources, using community open standards.

Used in

  • Canada
    Canada
    Canadian Research Outputs portal
  • EC Participant Portal
    EC Participant Portal
    Link Publications to H2020 Projects
  • CITE
    CITE
    Open Science Lens
  • Planetek Hellas
    Planetek Hellas
    OpenAIRE Moodle plugin for space/geospatial sector
  • Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
    Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
    Enriching metadata records with funding information using the OpenAIRE API
  • Ruđer Bošković Institute
    Ruđer Bošković Institute
    Developing a national interoperable project catalogue in Croatia
  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
    Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
    Open Science Management

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Use Cases

  • Canada
    Canada
    Canadian Research Outputs portal
  • EC Participant Portal
    EC Participant Portal
    Link Publications to H2020 Projects
  • CITE
    CITE
    Open Science Lens
  • Planetek Hellas
    Planetek Hellas
    OpenAIRE Moodle plugin for space/geospatial sector
  • Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
    Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
    Enriching metadata records with funding information using the OpenAIRE API
  • Ruđer Bošković Institute
    Ruđer Bošković Institute
    Developing a national interoperable project catalogue in Croatia
  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
    Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
    Open Science Management
OpenAIRE Service Catalogue receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under OpenAIRE-Advance (No. 777541) and OpenAIRE Nexus (No. 101017452)