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Publish

Service portfolio
Storing, publishing and sharing knowledge
Autonomy and control at your institution, now and in the future. With SURF’s solutions, you can manage storage, publication, and sharing all in one go. This ensures that knowledge outputs are digitally accessible, findable, visible, and reusable. Think of research publications, digital learning materials, and student work, as well as the secure, long-term preservation of large datasets.
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The added value of SURF

Sharing on your terms

With our solutions and expertise, you can share knowledge outputs easily, under your own control and with the right conditions in place.

Sharing knowledge and expertise together

Together with educational and research institutions, we exchange knowledge on topics such as copyright and OERs. You can link existing (own) systems to our services.

Linking with own systems

You can link existing (own) systems to our services.

What we offer on publishing

Source systems

For storing, metadating and publishing knowledge products. You can also link these solutions to existing (in-house) systems if required.

Portals

Make knowledge products stored in source systems digitally accessible, findable, visible and reusable via one or more portals:

Publishing tools

Tools to support the publishing and management of materials. These tools work in combination with our solutions, but can also be used independently.

Expertise

SURF and its member institutions share knowledge on certain topics:

Knowledge sharing under the control of institutions

In a world of scattered and highly diverse source systems and portals, SURF offers a range of solutions that enable all institutions to store and publish knowledge outputs. We connect everything, making the content of each source system and repository accessible to all.

Institutions remain in control. You decide – directly or via SURF – which knowledge outputs from your own source systems are shared, when, and with whom. In addition, you can support researchers, lecturers, and support staff with a variety of publishing tools.

Publishing in practice