Course full name
Tra cataloghi e motori di ricerca: la ricerca delle informazioni online e la loro valutazione
Course ID number
2122-PCTO-BIBLIO
Searching for open access content
Completion requirements
Go through the activity to the end
A selection of archives, search engines, databases with OA content
OpenAire
OpenAire lets you retrieve records of Open access publications thanks to its search engine named Explore. It searches publications, data, software from institutional and disciplinary repositories, organizations etc.
The aim of this program is to build an infrastructure for data sharing between digital repositories.
Bicocca's institutional repository, BOA, is OpenAire compliant, so when you upload your research on BOA, it will be harvested into OpenAire.
Besides, OpenAire is a great source of information and training for all aspects of Open Access publishing and Open Science. It provides a training section with factsheets and webinars.
Since it retrieves not only European but also international repositories, it is a great source of information for bibliographic research.
OpenAire also includes the Zenodo repository, which is an important database focused on European open access literature and data. It currently contains nearly 21 million records. Each record has a link to the original repository to access the full text.