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OpenAIRE Nexus

An OpenAIRE-led Horizon-Europe-funded initiative (2021-2024) that bundles OpenAIRE services and tools into a coherent service portfolio for delivery through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), targeting researchers, content providers, research communities, funders, and policy makers.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

  • Is an instance

    A funder using OpenAIRE MONITOR (a Nexus service) to track funded-research OA compliance.

  • Is an instance

    A community Gateway (CONNECT) for a specific discipline assembled from Nexus components.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

  • Not an instance

    Zenodo predates Nexus and is a CERN/OpenAIRE service, not itself 'Nexus'.

  • Not an instance

    A national OA repository is not OpenAIRE Nexus.

Editorial commentary

Nexus consolidates pre-existing OpenAIRE services (PROVIDE for content providers, MONITOR for funders, CONNECT for research communities, the Research Graph, Argos for data management plans, AMNESIA for anonymisation, Zenodo for deposit) into a unified offer. The project is the operational vehicle by which OpenAIRE moves from a series of project-funded initiatives into the EOSC’s persistent service catalogue.

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Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

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Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
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