Landscape study on (semi-)automatic publishing workflows/integration between RI and repository services

Eosc Future Working Group On The Eosc Interoperability Framework For Research Product Publishing

European Open Science Cloud  Publishing workflow  EOSC  Interoperability Framework  Open Science 

Open Science calls for researchers to publish as soon as possible any type of research product in such a way their research activity can be transparently assessed, reviewed, reproduced, and rewarded in all its aspects. However, the publishing process has become more and more a burden for scientists, who must, most of the time, spend time to publish their articles, data, software, and other products in the many institutional or thematic repositories of reference. Scenarios include first-time publishing of new resource products or double-publishing of research products, to satisfy institutional mandates and community practices. Such tedious work is often incomplete, with some products ending up unpublished and others showing incomplete or imprecise metadata. As a solution to these problems, some communities investigated and realised the integration of their research performing services, from RIs and Clusters, with repositories. The integration ensures that outcomes of such services are deposited by the services, prior authorization of the users, into a given repository, giving life to an end-to-end scientific workflow, from experimentation to publishing. This document reports the experiences of the WG members, describing solutions at different maturity levels (design, prototype, beta, production) and involving different types of services (repository, analysis/research tool, publisher, other scholarly service) for the (semi-)automatic deposition steps of research assets produced in a research infrastructure to a target service in the scholarly communication ecosystem. It also presents a list of scenarios that would benefit from an interoperability framework for research product deposition.

Source: ISTI Research reports, 2023

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