Digital repository to provide open access to ERA ‘goods’

It is said that the European Research Area is to research and innovation what the EU “common market” is for goods and services. That being true, there is then need for a common warehouse to store the “goods” produced by the ERA. The Commission has recently laid out plans to establish such a repository, known as the Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research, or DRIVER.

DRIVER will serve as an e-infrastructure for storing R&D findings produced through the ERA. Once established, the general public will have free access to scientific/technical reports, research articles, experimental or observational data, rich media and other digital information via the internet.