About

The OARS project aims to enhance the Forced Migration Online Digital Library, a digital repository of scholarly resources based at the Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford by migrating it to an open source platform. The repository is the largest on its subject area in the world and represents a unique, widely used and constantly expanding collection of resources which is highly valued by the user community it serves. Such a migration will enhance the repository by making it more manageable for those maintaining it. Its enhancement will also make the repository globally interoperable with other open systems, as well as with the University of Oxford’s institutional repository. The enhanced repository’s long-term preservation will be ensured by the use of open source software and open standards compliant with the JISC Information Environment. Ultimately, the repository will become discoverable and accessible to the wider HE community. In addition, this enhancement will benefit our wider community of users globally, who are also important contributors of content.