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TARDIS was one of a cluster of complementary projects funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of the Focus on Access to Institutional Resources Programme (FAIR). It has built a sustainable multidisciplinary institutional repository - the University of Southampton Research Repository (called, in short, e-Prints Soton) - to leverage the research created within Southampton University, using both author self-archiving and assisted deposit.

The Theses Alive! project was set up to promote the adoption of a management system for electronic theses and dissertations in the UK. The project was run from the Edinburgh University Library with grant funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

The RoMEO Project (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to investigate the rights issues surrounding the 'self-archiving' of research in the UK academic community. Part of the project's output was the SHEPRA/ROMEO website on publisher copyright policies & self-archiving.

The ePrints UK project is developing a series of national, discipline-focused services through which the higher and further education community can access the collective output of e-print papers available from compliant Open Archive repositories, particularly those provided by UK universities and colleges.

The DAEDALUS (Data-providers for Academic E-content and the Disclosure of Assets for Learning, Understanding and Scholarship) project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) with the objective to develop a range of Open Digital Collections which will enable members of the University of Glasgow (and beyond) to deposit and access scholarly output such as published and peer-reviewed academic papers, pre-prints and e-theses.

The Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW) project provides tools to enable accessibility and discoverability of research from institutional repositories.

The Public Knowledge Project is a research and development initiative aimed at improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments. It has developed, among others, open source software and services, the Open Journals System (OJS) - an open source journal management and publishing system.