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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]
As of 21 September 2008, [update] 496 of its publications are from the Mathematics and Computing Department of the OU, while over two thousand are from the Science department. [4] As of 2023 [update] 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]