 In a highly connected world with an ever-increasing volume of scholarly works, why would your research be disconnected from related work, scattered and not easily accessible for communities? OpenAir introduces you to OpenAir Connect. OpenAir Connect is a service that helps research communities and initiatives to build thematic or institutional content-based gateways. Gateways are unique portals that collect and present publications, research data, and software to researchers. Connect gateways are customizable through user-friendly dashboards. With Connect, gateway owners can search and showcase their research outputs in a single entry access point, use customized classifiers and discovery mechanisms, allow community users to link and claim research results, share open science practices, meet community needs, make a lasting impact. Dashboards enable gateway owners to customize style, content sharing, and visibility. Connect is powered by the OpenAir Graph, one of the largest open scholarly metadata record collections worldwide. OpenAir Connect is a service for universities, research institutions, initiatives, communities, projects, infrastructures. Request a gateway and be the next to value from it. Community building in practice.