A showcase for your scholarly content

Repository software, hosting & services for institutions or organizations of any size

What we do

Open Repository is the hosted repository platform from BioMed Central, the world’s leading open access specialist. Easily upload, manage, preserve and disseminate your organization's content. Curate articles, images, video, research data and metadata.

Repository Software

Enhanced core DSpace platform with the latest preservation features & powerful repository tools

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Repository Hosting

Powerful, enterprise-grade hosting, managed 24/7 from inside Springer-SBM ISO-certified data centers

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Institutional; Repository; Hosted; DSpace

Services & Support

Packages & services to support your open access or preservation requirements

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How we help our clients

Open Repository support digital curation, preservation & open access in Universities, Research Bodies, NGOs, Charities and Enterprise. A diverse and growing range of globally distributed institutions, we offer a managed repository environment for research, open access and preservation outputs since 2004. Here are some of the ways we help our clients:

Open Repository is part of BioMed Central, the Open Access specialist

Slash repository running costs: cut overheads, save money & time

Increased Deposits, Downloads, Views, Citations, Discovery, Metadata, Quality

Increased deposits, views, downloads, citations, discovery, metadata quality

Training, Knowledege-bases, feedback, support

Training, knowledge-bases, feedback, user & ongoing support via dedicated staff

Comply with mandates & research exercise, via easy deposit & review workflows

Curate documents, ETDs, video, audio, research data inside intuitive structure

Customization, upgrades, 3rd party integration, single-sign-on authentication

Universal access & granular search from any computing device

“I can only praise the Open Repository staff for being extremely helpful and supportive both during the establishment of the repository and subsequently with various modifications. In particular, the technical staff have been extraordinarily responsive to questions and requests for changes. Recently, the staff helped with a refresh of our site and we are delighted with the new “look” and simplified navigation. Very impressive service.”
Tony Reid, Medical Editor, Médecins Sans Frontières

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Scalable & Consultative

Large, scalable storage
Rich in customizable features
Extend & Integrate

Smaller or Developing Clients

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Low in price, rich in features
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About our clients ... and their users

DSpace, increased, visits, downloads, Open Repostiory

Jan' 13- July ‘15- Client visits (red) and item downloads (blue) by month. All Open Repository instances.

Jan ‘13- July '15 –Top 20 client visits by country. All Open Repository instances combined.

Support & Development 2013-15 (Open Repository client instances combined):

40+ active or trialling clients on our live & preview platforms

6 major platform improvement projects completed

1k+ support, query new build, project tickets completed

Average 60 changes requests released to platform monthly

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“We chose Open Repository because we were looking for a hosted service to help us get started. We wanted to move forward with the repository services but did not have the technological infrastructure needed locally to support DSpace ourselves. Contracting our hosting services with Open Repository allowed us to get started and focus on working with our customer base immediately.”
Kimberly Chapman, Library Campus Manager, University of Arizona

News, Updates & Support

Open; Repositories; 2015; Conference; Open Repository

Listening to Google Scholar's Anurag Acharya talk on search indexing at Open Repositories 2015, Indianapolis

Open Repository; Conference; DSpace; University of Monterrey;

Meeting our new clients, the digital library team at University of Monterrey, Mexico, led by Dr. Héctor Ceballos

DSpace; Hackday, Decouple; Developers; Springer; BioMed Central; Open Repository; neoj4; graphdb

Hackdays at the BMC-Springer-MacMillan hub in London: Experimental neo4j graph relation databases in DSpace

News: Follow @OpenRepository on Twitter & other social media to get the latest updates on what we're up to.

Blog: We also write at the BioMed Central blog, where we write on Open Repository, new & experimental features, open access, advocacy ,preservation, data curation & other topics. Look out for content tagged ‘Open Repository’.

Support: Existing clients with a registered admin user can also access the Open Repository Portal to get information about platform updates, releases, maintenance, upgrades, documentation, FAQs, general info about repositories, open access, research-preservation curation and other support material.

About Open Repository

Welcome! Open Repository is a platform operated by BioMed Central, the leading open access publisher. Open Repository is a hosted repository service for institutions and organizations, offering open access and digital preservation.

Regardless of size or location, our packages meet a wide range of repository preservation requirements. BioMed Central has been operating Open Repository since 2004 and we believe in a long term sustainable approach to running a repository.

We hope you enjoy looking at our site, and do take a look at our software, hosting and service pages. Please do get in touch via the contact page, if you have any questions about our platform, would like to request a demo, trial or acquire an Open Repository instance.