HEAL-Link and HELIX open collaboration to facilitate and promote scholarly communication through Open Access and engage Research Infrastructures in Open Science

Abstract

The quinquennium of 2018-2022 will bring dramatic changes in the field of scientific research, providing added value to global and national academic and research communities. Open Science, the leading policy priority for EU science, comprises inextricably linked horizontal e-Infrastructures and vertical Research Infrastructures to accommodate both the generic-purpose and domain-specific needs of the community. In this landscape, we observe an emerging convergence of scholarly communication with scientific data management, aiming to provide researchers with a comprehensive suite of services for the management, discovery, sharing, use, archiving of scientific data.

The Hellenic Data Service (HELIX) is a new national eInfrastructure supporting this paradigm, with a mandate to accommodate the entire lifecycle of data-intensive research. HELIX will deliver services for storing, managing, discovering, processing, analyzing, visualizing, and archiving diverse open and proprietary scientific data that will be shared and reused in a cross-domain and cross-discipline manner. HELIX will support scalable and interactive computing, lowering the entry barrier for researchers, and offering a single point to discover, share and reuse high-value scientific data assets linked with publications and software.

The HEAL-Link Consortium (Hellenic Academic Libraries Link) is actively involved in projects, initiatives, developments to the scientific publication landscape and its goal is to act in a...