Our mission:
To support your efforts to provide ready access to research materials and information - Researchers, students, teachers and the public want access to educational resources. Scholarly societies, researchers, librarians, archivists and other educators want to get their materials out there for use. We make that happen by removing technological barriers and making it simpler to connect c
ontent-creators with consumers. To provide low-cost hosting and support - We provide low-cost hosting and expert support of the open-source library, archives, and scholarly publishing software projects we love. Many libraries, archives, and journals would benefit from more sophisticated software - or any at all! - but they lack the IT resources or big budget to make it happen themselves. To grow the community - We support the open-source software community by popularizing great software and making it easy for anyone to run. We also give back by contributing code enhancements back to the source for anyone to use. Our story:
We are librarians and programmers
We have worked with state institutions and small scholarly societies. We have collaborated with huge consortia and local groups. We have worked on the inside with the very software we host - so we know what it's like for you and your staff. We believe in the mission
We are passionate about serving the needs of your users. We want you to be awesome at what you do - publishing original research, finding aids, digital materials, and whatever else you can imagine - so your users don't even have to think about it. We are making it better
We have worked for the corporations who only care about making more space on the site for ads. We have worked for the bureaucracies who put too much paperwork between educators and the public. We have worked with vendors who are charging more for less each year. We had enough of that and now we work for you. To learn more, please contact us! [email protected]
