Open Research Online (ORO) is a repository of research publications run by The Open University (OU).[1]
It uses the GNU ePrints software, and its repositories use the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.[2]
It is an open access repository, and it accepts books, journal articles, patents, conference articles, and theses.[3]
496 of its publications are from the Mathematics and Computing Department of the OU, while over two thousand are from the Science department.[4] the STEM department has the most overall publication downloads of any department with total downloads sitting at 22,310 for the Jul 1, 2023 – Jul 11, 2023 period.[5]