A wealth of repository-related projects will be represented at the Open Access Seminar to be held next week at Universidade do Minho in Braga, Portugal, with an emphasis on interoperability and connecting institutional repositories to research data management. An OpenAIRE wokshop on interoperability where the CRIS/IR integration will have a central role, plus the release of the ‘OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Archive Managers’ and presentations by projects such as Jisc-funded PRIME or PREPARDE plus MedOANet and OpenAIREplus will add to a speech on Open Science by University of Edinburgh VP Geoffrey Boulton to make this a very useful event to see the different work strands gradually coming together.

Prior to this Seminar, a CERIF Task Group meeting will take place at the same venue earlier next week where relevant issues for the RepNet Project will also be discussed.