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Zenodo's homepage gives you two direct browsing paths: Featured communities for curated, subject- or project-based collections, and Recent uploads for the newest deposits across the repository. Each listing shows enough metadata — title, author, upload date, version, access status, and usage counts — to judge relevance before you open the record. This works for anyone exploring open research outputs; it does not require knowing a specific DOI in advance.
The two entry points on the homepage
Featured communities
The homepage surfaces a rotating set of communities, each a curated collection around a funder, journal, project, or network. Examples visible on the page include:
| Community | What it covers |
|---|---|
| EU Open Research Repository | Outputs from Horizon Europe, Euratom, and earlier Framework Programmes |
| AAS Journals | Data and software for AAS journal articles (ApJ, AJ, ApJL, ApJS, BAAS, PSJ, RNAAS) |
| The Generic Mapping Tools | Items related to the GMT software |
| Biodiversity Literature Repository | Publications on bio-systematics |
| Machine Learning for Particle Physics | Community collection in that field |
| Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) | NIH data-ecosystem data management and sharing |
| Aurora Universities Network | Results from the Aurora university network |
| European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum (ECEMF) | Energy and climate research and policy outputs |
Selecting a community takes you to its own page, where its uploads are grouped together. This is the fastest route when your interest maps to a known project, funder, or journal.
Recent uploads
The Recent uploads feed lists the newest deposits with their core metadata inline. From the page, a typical entry shows:
- Title — e.g. "LINF_210011300 Requena Rolanía, Jose María"
- Author — the depositor or creator
- Upload date and version — e.g. "September 22, 2026 (v1)"
- Resource type — e.g. Dataset, Presentation
- Access status — e.g. Open
- Community membership — e.g. "Part of Leishmania and leishmaniasis"
- Usage counts — e.g. "0 Views 0 Downloads"
Because version, type, and access status appear in the list itself, you can filter by eye before clicking through.
What each record tells you
Every item carries a consistent metadata set, so the same fields are comparable across records:
- Title and author(s) — who produced it and what it is.
- Version — deposits are versioned (v1, v2, …), so you can tell whether you are looking at an original or a revision.
- Upload date — useful for judging recency.
- Resource type — dataset, presentation, software, publication, and so on.
- Access status — "Open" indicates the file is openly available.
- Community or collection — the "Part of …" line links the item to its parent community, which is how you move from a single record to related work.
- Views and downloads — a rough signal of how much the item has been used.
A practical browsing routine
- Start from a Featured community if your topic matches one; otherwise scan Recent uploads.
- Read the inline metadata — type, version, access status — to shortlist candidates.
- Open a record and check the "Part of …" community link to see sibling items.
- Use the community page to browse the full set rather than the single item.
For example, if you are looking for Leishmania genomics data, the "Part of Leishmania and leishmaniasis" link on a recent dataset takes you to the whole collection rather than just that one file.
Common sticking points
- Zero views/downloads is normal for new items. Recent uploads often show "0 Views 0 Downloads" simply because they were just deposited — it is not a quality signal.
- "Open" is per-item. Access status is shown on each record; do not assume every item in a community is open.
- Communities are curated, not exhaustive. A community reflects what its curators accept; the same topic may also exist outside any community, reachable through the general recent-uploads feed or search.