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 10 Jul 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).

References

OpenAIRE, 'EXPLORE' (explore.openaire.eu).

Also known as

OpenAIRE Explore

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="OpenAIRE EXPLORE"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/openaire-explore" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/openaire-explore",
  "name": "OpenAIRE EXPLORE",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/openaire-explore",
  "description": "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.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-info-systems#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/openaire-explore",
  "sameAs": [
    "OpenAIRE Explore"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:20",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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