Open Knowledge Repository

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The Open Knowledge Repository is the official open-access repository of the World Bank and features research content about development.[ 1] It was launched in 2012,[ 1] alongside the World Bank's Open Access Policy and its adoption of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for all research and knowledge products that it publishes, which collectively made the World Bank the first international organization to completely embrace open access.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] The repository collects the intellectual output of the World Bank in digital form, disseminates it, and preserves it long-term.[ 2] [ 5]

The Open Knowledge Repository features books, reports, serials, technical papers, working papers, and work studies.[ 2] [ 6] Among its contents are World Bank Group Annual Reports and Independent Evaluation Studies, books published by the World Bank Group, World Development Reports, and articles published in the journals World Bank Economic Review and World Bank Research Observer.[ 1] [ 5] [ 6] The repository also receives articles by World Bank researchers published by third-party publishers as part of the World Bank's Open Access Policy, which allows such articles to be embargoed but discourages publishers from the practice.[ 7]

The Open Knowledge Repository is regularly updated.[ 6] At its launch in April 2012, it held over 2,000 documents.[ 4] By August 2013, the repository held over 12,000 publications, mostly in English.[ 2] As of October 2021, the repository contains over 32,000 publications.[ 8]