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OpenAIRE EXPLORE

The end-user-facing discovery service of OpenAIRE that allows researchers, funders, and the public to search and browse the OpenAIRE Graph by publications, datasets, software, projects, organisations, and funders.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    Searching EXPLORE for all OA outputs from a specific H2020 project to verify funder compliance.

  • Is an instance

    Browsing EXPLORE's open-access dashboard for a country to track national progress.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    A search in a publisher platform is not OpenAIRE EXPLORE.

  • Not an instance

    Browsing Crossref's REST API directly is not OpenAIRE EXPLORE.

Editorial commentary

OpenAIRE EXPLORE provides faceted search, statistical dashboards (open-access uptake per funder, per country, per discipline), funder-project pages with attached outputs, and downloadable result sets. It is the primary ‘window’ onto the OpenAIRE Graph for non-technical users. Output records carry links to their source repositories and to their PIDs (DOIs, Handles).

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Also known as

OpenAIRE Explore

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

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Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
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