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Explore our subscription plans and choose the best fit for your organisation.

As demand for our services grows, subscription fees will ensure their long-term sustainability. These funds allow us to invest in better resources, technology, and talent, enhancing our ability to deliver impactful programs. Subscriptions support both immediate operations and the growth needed to make a lasting, positive difference in the communities we serve.

Subscription Plans

Standard

For Thematic Communities

4000 €/Yearly


Includes:

  • Gateway on the Cloud
  • Gateway Customisation for Menu and Page Editing, and your Brand
  • Unlimited Number of Managers/Administrators
  • Login via OpenAIRE AAI
  • Standard search & browse
  • Fields of Science classification
  • Sustainable Development Goals classification
  • Research Linking Functionality
  • Link with your Zenodo Community
  • Curated Affiliations by OpenAIRE via OpenOrgs
  • Text mining
  • Default Charts
  • Data Update (via OpenAIRE Graph)
  • Metadata Access via APIs
  • Metadata Snapshots Every 6 Months if Public
  • Support time to reply: 72h
  • Training: 1h
  • Backup, archive after the subscription ends: Up to 1 month
  • Trial period: 2 months

Advanced

For Research Infrastructures or Communities

5500 €/Yearly


Includes CONNECT Standard plus:

  • Customised pages
  • Search & browse by sub-communities
  • Customised text mining
  • Integration of Community Services (subject to feasibility study)
  • Frequent metadata snapshot upon request
  • Support time to reply: 48h
  • Training: 4h
  • Backup, archive after the subscription ends: Up to 2 months
  • Trial period: 3 months

Premium

For Research Organisations and Networks

5500 €/Yearly


Includes CONNECT Advanced plus:

  • Request additional members
  • +800 euros per additional member
  • Search & browse by organisation members (coming soon)
  • Customized charts per organisation (coming soon)
  • Training: 10h

Bundle

CONNECT & MONITOR
For Research Infrastructures, Network, i.e. University Alliances

- €/Yearly


Includes CONNECT Standard or Advanced & MONITOR Premium

  • Request additional members
  • + 1200 euros per dedicated member dashboard
Important:
  • OpenAIRE members get a 30% discount
    For EU organisations, 0% VAT if the VIES check is positive ('Exempt from VAT, article 14, Law 2859/2000').
  • For EU organisations with a VAT check is negative then VAT is charged.
  • For Outside of EU organisations, 0% VAT ('Exempt from VAT, article 14, Law 2859/2000). In that case, organisation must send a Certificate of Good Standing or any relevant documentation that proves its business activity.
  • For organisations with a Greek VATId number, 24% VAT is charged.

Compare plans

   Standard Advanced Premium
 Gateway on the Cloud  Y  Y  Y

 Gateway Customisation for Menu,

 Page Editing and Branding

Y  Y Y
 Customised pages -  Y  Y
 Unlimited number of Managers/Administrators Y  Y  Y
 Login via OpenAIRE AAI  Y  Y Y
 Standard Search & Browse  Y  Y  Y
 Search & Browse by Sub-communities - Y -
 Search & Browse by Organisation Members - - Y
 Fields of Science Classification Y Y Y
 Sustainable Development Goals Classification Y Y Y
 Research Linking Functionality Y Y Y
 Link with your Zenodo Community Y Y Y

 Curated Affiliations

 by OpenAIRE team via OpenOrgs

Y Y Y
 Text mining Y Y Y
 Customised Text Mining - Y Y
 Default Charts Y Y Y
 Customised Charts per Organisation - - Y
 Data Update (via OpenAIRE Graph) Y Y Y

 Integration of Community Services

 (subject to feasibility study)

- Y Y
 Metadata Access via APIs  Y Y Y

 Metadata Snapshots

 Every 6 months if public

Y Y Y
 Frequent Metadata Snapshot Upon Request - Y Y
 Support Time to Reply 72h 48h 48h
 Training 1h 4h 10h

 Backup & Archive

 After End of Subscription

Up to 1 month

Up to

2 months

Up to 

2 months

 Trial Period

2 months

3 months

3 months

 

Explore all features

The OpenAIRE CONNECT Gateway provides a comprehensive set of features designed to support and enhance research communities in bringing forward their results and Open Science activities/practices.
Gateway on the Cloud
Full IT support of the service: hosting, installation, maintenance, upgrade, backups. Ensures reliable and secure cloud deployment on the OpenAIRE infrastructure, providing scalable and accessible cloud services.
Gateway Customization for Menu, Page Editing and Branding
Create your own menu, edit pages, and adapt to your visual identity with logo, banner, background, buttons, colors. Edit the home page to include your personalised content.
Customized Pages
Request new pages for you to customize.
Unlimited Number of Managers/ Administrators
Supports an unlimited number of administrators or managers, enhancing collaborative management and oversight capabilities.
Login via OpenAIRE AAI
Sign in via an institutional account (eduGAIN), GitHub, Google, LinkedIn, ORCID, or with an OpenAIRE account.
Standard Search & Browse
Search and browse for research products, projects, and data sources. Users can use all the filters of OpenAIRE Explore, including filters for type of products (publications, data, software and more), FoS (Field of Science) and SDGs (UN Sustainable Development Goals). You can enable or disable the search functionality on specific entity types according to your needs.
Search & Browse by Sub-communities
You define how your community is organised (e.g. by theme, by geographical nodes). OpenAIRE CONNECT can associate research products to the sub-communities and offer dedicated options to search and browse. Available for OpenAIRE CONNECT Advanced.
Search & Browse by Organisation Members
Search and browse for organisations that are members of your research communities or filter research products by organisation*. * Coming soon for OpenAIRE CONNECT Premium.
Fields of Science Classification
Publications are classified by SciNoBo: a novel system classifying scholarly communication in a dynamically constructed hierarchical Field-of-Science taxonomy - https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1149834
Sustainable Development Goals Classification
Publications are classified by SciNoBo. For more information, please visit: https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-explore-introducing-sdgs-and-fos
Research Linking Functionality
Allow your users to link articles, dataset, or software within a same project (see this guide) and claim their authorship with ORCID (guide).
Link with your Zenodo Community
Seamlessly integrates with Zenodo communities, allowing users to manage and share their research outputs within a dedicated community space.
Curated Affiliations by OpenAIRE Team via OpenOrgs
Utilizes affiliations curated by the OpenAIRE team, ensuring data accuracy and organizational integrity through verified affiliations.
Text Mining
Employs advanced data mining algorithms to extract and analyze data, enhancing the platform's ability to provide deep insights and comprehensive research intelligence. Learn more about the text mining algorithms on the web site of the OpenAIRE Graph.
Customised Text Mining
OpenAIRE develops a text mining algorithm for the identification of research products of your community. You help us with the tests and fine tuning to reach the optimal precision and recall. Available for CONNECT Advanced and Premium.
Default Charts
A set of charts to check the uptake of Open Science practices within your community: percentage of Open Access publications and datasets, geographic distribution of publications, datasets with persistent Identifiers over time, download counts of publications by year, and publications by access rights over time.
Customised Charts per Organization
The set of default charts customised for the organisations that are members of your research community*. *Coming soon for CONNECT Premium.
Data Update (via OpenAIRE Graph)
Regularly, every time the OpenAIRE Graph is updated (about once a month).
DISCLAIMERS
When not specified, the feature is available for all pricing plans. Some functionalities require actions on the end of the subscribers in order to operate properly; contact us directly for additional help and guidance in setting up your Gateway.