Open Research Online (ORO) is a repository of research publications run by The Open University (OU).
[1] It uses the GNU ePrints software, and its repositories use the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
[2] It is an open access repository, and it accepts books, journal articles, patents, conference articles, and theses.
[3] As of 21 September 2008,[update] 496 of its publications are from the Mathematics and Computing Department of the OU, while over two thousand are from the Science department.
[4] As of 2023[update] the STEM department has the most overall publication downloads of any department with total downloads sitting at 22,310 for the Jul 1, 2023 – Jul 11, 2023 period.