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Open Science: key websites

BioRxiv is a free preprint server for biology research hosted by CSHL.

HRB Open Research: (Health Research Board Open Research) is a platform for HRB funded researchers to publish their research outputs in an open and accessible way.

LENUS: is the Irish health repository. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles, grey literature, dissertations, reports and conference presentations. Lenus contains the publications of the HSE and the research output of over 130 health organisations past and present are all freely accessible. 

LitMaps: recommends papers based on an initial starting or 'seed' article. Simply search for your topic, select an article, and LitMaps will find the top 100 relevant articles based on connection and citations. Data sources include Semantic Scholar, Open Alex, Cross Ref and preprint services including PubMed and MedRxiv.

OpenAire Explore offers 3m publications, 2m research datasets, 3m other research products, 112K of software from 16K content providers and 18 funders linked together for an integrated discovery of research.

Open Knowledge Maps: is an AI-based visual interface that can help inicreases the visibility of research findings for science. It searches and visualizes content from PubMed and BASE resources, based on subject relevance. Open Knowledge maps provide an instant overview of a topic by showing the main areas at a glance, and documents related to each area. This makes it possible to easily identify useful, relevant info.

OpenGrey aka Information on Grey Literature in Europe, gives open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (papers) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate the documents.  Examples of grey literature include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers and official publications. OpenGrey covers science, technology and biomedical science

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

PubMedCentral Europe is an open access repository, providing access to worldwide life sciences articles, books, patents and clinical guidelines.

World Wide Science is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.

Zenodo: is an open-access repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN. It allows researchers to deposit data sets, research software, reports, and other researc

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