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This semantic wiki at {{SITENAME}} aims at making the world of science more visible and accessible. Information about scientific events, research projects, publishers, journals etc. is scattered around on the Web. For researchers (especially young ones without decades of experience) it is often difficult to find the relevant venues, people or tools. Also research is increasingly dynamic and multi-disciplinary, so the boundaries between communities blur and new research directions emerge. With this semantic Wiki, we aim to make information about scientific events, research groups, tools, journals etc. more accessible. {{SITENAME}} is not restricted to any field of science.
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== What is {{SITENAME}} ==
 
 
 
The concept of Open Access gained recently quite some attention as a means to make science more accessible, flexible and efficient. But gaining access to scientific results is just one aspect for making research more efficient. Scientists also need to know who is working on what, which tools are available, what conferences are worth visiting and presenting, where to get funding ... A large part of their time researchers are busy trying to get these kinds of information for their work. {{SITENAME}} provides a plattform for researchers to collect, organize, share and disseminate this kind of information in a structured way.
 
 
 
You can think of {{SITENAME}} being yellow pages, event calendar, news wire, project directory of science all together. Everybody can easily participate and all information is freely available (also for download and republication).
 
 
 
 
 
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== Who is behind {{SITENAME}}?==
 
 
 
OpenResearch.org was created by members of the [http://aksw.org AKSW] and [http://bis.uni-leipzig.de Business Information Systems] departments at [http://www.uni-leipzig.de Universität Leipzig]. As the community is growing and we also started other Open Research related projects (such as [http://Cofundos.org Cofundos.org] and the [http://wiki.cofundos.org Participatory Research initiative]) we are currently in the process of establishing a separate organisation - the Open Research Association.
 
 
 
==Contact==
 
 
 
[[Sören Auer]]
 
 
 
c/o AG AKSW / Business Information Systems dep.
 
 
 
Institut für Informatik
 
 
 
Universität Leipzig
 
 
 
Postfach 100920
 
 
 
04009 Leipzig
 
 
 
European Union / Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Phone: +49 (341) 97–32320
 
 
 
Fax: +49 (341) 97–32329
 
 
 
 
 
Email: info@OpenResearch.org
 
 
 
Web: http://OpenResearch.org
 

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