About

Helping researchers bring their ideas to the world.

At OpenScholar, we believe that cutting-edge research should be seen for what it is—extraordinary. Through their work, researchers already have everything they need to attract talent, collaborators, partners, and investors. It just needs to be found, so they can accelerate breakthroughs, advance discoveries/cures, and find solutions to large scale problems.

That’s where OpenScholar comes in. We’re a place where researchers can connect and their research can flourish, all on a single, easy-to-use, self-service platform.

Our History

OpenScholar began as an open-source research project, led by Gary King, the Weatherhead University Professor and Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. OpenScholar grew organically at Harvard and other research universities because it served an urgent need, was scalable and reduced escalating IT costs.

Jess Drislane became the CEO of OpenScholar and lifted the project out of Harvard to become a private company, the first time this had been done in Harvard's 375-year history. The goal was to expand and enhance the platform, offering any research institution a full-service research publishing platform including hosting, training, theming, automatic upgrades, and customer support.

OpenScholar continues to grow as a mission-driven software company offering a powerful collaboration network and platform serving over 40,000 researchers across hundreds of institutions internationally.