SciLifeLab launches the SciLifeLab Open Science Monitor powered by OpenAIRE

SciLifeLab has launched the SciLifeLab Open Science Monitor, to provide a transparent, aggregated view of research outputs that are affiliated with, enabled by, or connected to SciLifeLab, including publications, datasets, and software. The system will help SciLifeLab management and the research community to understand and track our outputs, and how our Open Science activities and policies help to strengthen our scientific impact.

The SciLifeLab Open Science Monitor is now publicly available https://scilifelab.openaire.eu/, offering new ways to explore how research outputs are shared, linked, and reused across the organisation. The service builds on software and data developed and curated by OpenAIRE, a European non-profit organisation that promotes Open Science and plays a key role in developing digital infrastructure, including within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Relevance of the SciLifeLab Open Science Monitor:

Open Science is a core part of SciLifeLab’s mission. As Sweden’s national life science research infrastructure, SciLifeLab supports researchers across academia, healthcare, and industry, while promoting FAIR data, open access, and transparency throughout the research lifecycle. National and international requirements around Open Science are evolving rapidly. Sweden’s national guidelines highlight the requirement to transition to Open Science by 2026 and emphasises the importance of open access to publications and publicly accessible research outputs. The SciLifeLab Open Science Monitor provides data-driven insights into how research outputs are produced, shared, and connected, complementing SciLifeLab’s existing reporting processes from infrastructure units and affiliated researchers.

“Life Science in Sweden is well on the way towards the government’s goal for publicly funded research to adhere to the principles of Open Science by 2026. The launch of the SciLifeLab Open Science Monitor will enable us to track this progress with more detail, and understand even better how Open Science strengthens scientific impact and innovation in the life science area, “
says Johan Rung, Head of SciLifeLab Data Centre and continues “Thanks to the close collaboration with OpenAIRE, SciLifeLab can provide a national level view on how Open Science strengthens a scientific discipline, similar to national Open Science monitors in for example France, Ireland, Germany and Netherlands.” 

Overview of the SciLifeLab Open Science Monitor

The SciLifeLab Open Science Monitor aggregates research information from the OpenAIRE Graph, a global open database linking publications, datasets, software, projects, organisations, and funders. This service is based on the OpenAIRE MONITOR and CONNECT services which uses automated full-text mining to connect related research outputs from multiple institutions, repositories, and publishers to provide a unified overview of SciLifeLab’s research footprint, highlighting research connections, collaborations, and the scale of life science research associated with SciLifeLab within the Swedish research landscape. The service will continue to evolve, and feedback from the SciLifeLab community is essential to improving coverage, metadata quality, and supporting resources.