Research challenge

Free and open access to publicly funded research offers significant benefits to all sectors of society but also requires sophisticated new systems to make research results useful for everyone who needs them. In order to meet this challenge software needed to be developed to enable organisations to deposit, distribute and archive their information effectively and efficiently while tackling the technical complexities of knowledge production.

Context

In recent years the open access model has been playing an increasingly important role in scientific publishing. There is a strong moral and economic case for publicly funded research to be freely accessible to all stakeholders – from industry to the general public.