DARE programme

The Digital Academic Repositories programme (DARE) ran 2003 to 2006. It was set up by the Dutch universities with the intention of making their research results digitally accessible. The National Library of the Netherlands (KB), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) are also members of this unique partnership. The programme was coordinated by SURFfoundation.

Modernising

The DARE programme aimed to modernise scientific/scholarly information management in the Netherlands by:

• creating a repository infrastructure;
• offering advanced services for digitally storing, making accessible, preserving, and distributing Dutch scientific and scholarly products.
  Information on how the programme was set up is given in an article by Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil: "The Dawning of the Dutch Network of Digital Academic Repositories (DARE): A Shared Experience" (2004).
  The Dawning of the Dutch Network of Digital Academic Repositories (DARE): A Shared Experience" (2004).