Horizon-Europe-Criteria for Trusted Repositories
Background and context
Trusted repositories are defined as either
- Certified repositories (e.g., CoreTrustSeal, nestor Seal DIN31644, ISO16363) or disciplinary and domain repositories commonly used and endorsed by the research communities. Such repositories should be recognized internationally.
- General-purpose repositories or institutional repositories that present the essential characteristics of trusted repositories.
The Refubium is not certified with a CoreTrustSeal or any of the other above-mentioned certifications. However, it does hold a DINI Certificate for Open Access Repositories and Publication Services 2019 (https://dini.de/dienste-projekte/dini-zertifikat/).
The Refubium is not a disciplinary or domain repository, but an institutional repository.
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Proof | How these are realized in Refubium |
Trusted repositories display specific characteristics of organizational, technical and procedural quality such as services, mechanisms and/or provisions that are intended to secure the integrity and authenticity of their contents, thus facilitating their use and re-use in the short- and long-term. Trusted repositories have specific provisions in place and offer explicit information online about their policies, which define their services (e.g. acquisition, access, security of content, long-term sustainability of service including funding etc.). |
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Provide broad, equitable and ideally open access to content free at the point of use, as appropriate, and respect applicable legal and ethical limitations. They assign persistent unique identifiers to contents (e.g. DOIs, handles, etc.), such that the contents (publications, data and other research outputs) are unequivocally referenced and thus citeable. They ensure that contents are accompanied by metadata sufficiently detailed and of sufficiently high quality to enable discovery, reuse and citation and contain information about provenance and licensing; metadata are machine-actionable and standardized (e.g. Dublin Core, Data Cite etc.) preferably using common non-proprietary formats and following the standards of the respective community the repository serves, where applicable. |
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Facilitate mid-and long-term preservation of the deposited material.
They meet generally accepted international and national criteria for security to prevent unauthorized access and release of content and have different levels of security depending on the sensitivity of the data being deposited to maintain privacy and confidentiality. |
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Conclusion
From the standpoint of the teams Refubium and Research Data Management researchers at Freie Universität who apply for funding in the Horizon Europe programme should be able to use the Refubium for the publication of their research data. The Refubium is not labeled as a trusted repository.
The European Commission published a pre-draft of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement (AGA) for Horizon Europe projects. According to the AGA "beneficiaries must ensure deposition of and open access to publications (and research data, where the case) through trusted repositories" (p. 155).
Repository requirements as referenced from European Commission (2021). EU Grants: AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement: V0.2 DRAFT– 30.11.2021. 3. EU Programmes 2021-2027. HE. Horizon Europe and Euratom. https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/aga_en.pdf (see p. 155-156).
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This page was last edited on 02 August 2022.