Open Access Week Profile 1: Forced Migration Repositories

"In 2009, Forced Migration Online (FMO), a project of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), received funding to develop an Open Access Repository System (OARS), migrate its information resources to an open source platform, and make its grey literature digital library more interoperable with other open systems. This move immediately enhanced the visibility of documents that were formerly housed in a proprietary database...."