Eloy Rodrigues
University of Minho, Portugal
Director Library Services
Portugal
Eloy Rodrigues is the Director of the
University of Minho Libraries. Eloy has been working on repositories, Open Access and Open Science for almost two decades, having established
University of Minho institutional repository in 2003, and coordinating the UMinho team which works on
RCAAP (Portugal Open Access Science Repositories) since 2008.
At international level he has being working on several EU funded projects (like
OpenAIRE and
FOSTER) related with Open Access and Open Science and is member of the European University Association Expert Group on Open Science. Eloy was the Chair of the
Executive Board of COAR, the
Confederation of Open Access Repositories from 2015 to 2021, and in that role contributed actively to
Next Generation Repositories initiative, the
Pubfair conceptual model and the ongoing
Notify Project, in which he is one of the Principal Investigators.
Eloy is currently member of the
Executive Board of
OpenAIRE and of the
Advisory Committee of SciELO Portugal.