The OpenScienceLink architecture for novel services exploiting open access data in the biomedical domain

The rapidly growing wealth of published scientific work, produced by researchers and scholars, has resulted in a pressing need for more effective processes towards reviewing scientific articles and research data, organizing data journals, as well as for improved tools and techniques for bibliographic analysis and management of scientometrics. The ongoing EU research project OpenScienceLink aims to provide a remedy for the aforementioned problems, as well as offer a wide range of opportunities for better collaboration between researchers, by introducing a web based Platform which offers efficient and intelligent added-value applications and services for exploiting open access scientific information in the biomedical domain. The Platform is empowered by the semantic and social networking capabilities of three leading edge background infrastructures, which have been adapted and integrated for the scopes of the project. In this paper, we present the architecture of the first iteration of the OpenScienceLink Platform, including detailed information regarding the integration of the background infrastructures and services, as well as the open access data sources utilized.