OpenAIRE Explore

Overview

OpenAIRE Explore is an open-science discovery and aggregation resource that helps users find research outputs, projects, data, and connected scholarly entities in an open infrastructure environment. Its value is broader than paper search alone: it supports visibility into the relationships among publications, datasets, projects, organisations, and funding context. For researchers and open-science practitioners, this makes it especially useful for discovery, transparency, and ecosystem mapping. On Cuberfy, OpenAIRE Explore is best understood as an open research graph and discovery layer for European and international scholarship.

What You Can Find Here

• Open-science discovery across publications, datasets, projects, and organisations.
• A connected view of scholarly outputs and research context rather than isolated records.
• Useful support for tracing relationships between funding, institutions, and outputs.
• An open infrastructure alternative to purely commercial academic databases.
• A strong resource for users interested in transparency and interoperability.
• A practical discovery layer for open-science oriented research workflows.

Who Should Use This

• Researchers working with open-science and open-access discovery workflows.
• Policy analysts studying research outputs and institutional linkages.
• Librarians and research-support staff.
• Students exploring how projects, data, and publications connect.
• Grant strategists who need to map research ecosystems around a topic.
• Anyone preferring open research infrastructure over closed systems.

How to Get Started

1. Step 1: Start with a topic, project, institution, or author area relevant to your work.
2. Step 2: Use OpenAIRE Explore to trace connected outputs rather than reading records in isolation.
3. Step 3: Map how publications, datasets, and projects relate to one another.
4. Step 4: Use the open-science perspective to strengthen literature review or ecosystem analysis.
5. Step 5: Compare results with other tools if you need broader coverage or different search behaviour.
6. Step 6: Return to the platform when transparency and connected discovery matter more than a closed index.

Things to Check Before Applying

• Open infrastructure is powerful, but coverage patterns may differ from commercial tools.
• Discovery still needs critical evaluation and source verification.
• Users should distinguish between open-science context and formal application portals.
• Connected records are useful for mapping, but not every relationship is equally important.
• Use multiple sources for the strongest research picture.

Frequently Asked Questions