A Harvard Invention
In 2009, 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. Researchers, professors and clinicians wanted websites that would showcase their research, build their academic brands, and attract collaborators. This meant they could spend less time and money hiring agencies to build websites and could get back to what they loved - conducting research.
OpenScholar grew organically at Harvard and other research universities because it served an urgent need, was scalable and reduced escalating IT costs. Harvard’s high profile websites for schools, labs, departments, centers, people and projects now run on OpenScholar.
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