Open research: linking the bits and pieces with OpenAIRE-connect

Open research is growing in neuroimaging. The community — supported by funders who want best use of public funding but also by the general public who wants more transparent and participatory research practices — is constantly expanding online resources including: data (e.g. [1–3]), code (e.g. [4]), materials (e.g. [5]), tutorials, etc. This trend will likely amplify in the future and is also observed in other areas of experimental sciences. Open resources are typically deposited in dedicated repositories that are tailored to a particular type of artefact (e.g. [6,7]). While this is best practice, it makes it difficult to get the big picture: artefacts are scattered across the web in a multitude of databases. Although one could claim that the publication is here to link all related artefacts together, it’s not machine-readable and does not allow searching for artefacts using filters (e.g. all datasets created in relation with a given funder). Here, we present OpenAIRE-connect, an overlay platform that links together research resources stored on the web: https://beta.ni.openaire.eu/.