OPERAS Norway
OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure (RI) dedicated to supporting open scholarly communication in SSH within the European Research Area. Its mission is to coordinate and integrate European resources to address the needs of researchers. This is the website of the Norwegian OPERAS node.
OPERAS membership.
OPERAS has has over 70 members in 25 countries, and the community is rapidly growing. On this page you will find the information you need about the types of membership provided by OPERAS, and how to apply to become a member.
OPERAS Norway members
Currently there are two institutions in the Norwegian node nettwork. UiT (The Arctic University of Norway) and erih+.
OPERAS Services
The OPERAS service catalogue enables SSH researchers, as well as students and publishers, libraries, journalists, and other key stakeholder groups to access, reuse, and exploit research results made fully open thanks to OPERAS.
About OPERAS-NO
OPERAS-NO is one of 13 National Nodes connecting European initiatives with local research communities and ensuring that national needs and perspectives are taken into account in international developments.
OPERAS-NO supports coordination, knowledge exchange, and participation across borders, with a particular focus on open scholarly communication and non-commercial publishing models. The node encourages collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including universities, research infrastructures, libraries, scholarly publishers, and research communities in the social sciences and humanities.
OPERAS-NO is embedded in a broader landscape of policies and initiatives related to open science, research infrastructures, and sustainable scholarly publishing. The node supports the development of Diamond Open Access and other community-led publishing models, and contributes to European coordination from a Norwegian SSH perspective.
The OPERAS Norway node is relevant for:
- Institutions interested in engaging with OPERAS and European SSH infrastructures
- Publishers and platforms working with open and non-commercial scholarly communication
- Researchers and research communities seeking information about OPERAS-related initiatives
- Policy and infrastructure actors involved in open science and research support
Events for OPERAS Norway
One Network, Many Possibilities: Strengthening the OPERAS Community.
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