1. DARE Born - 2002 Expected Death - 2006 Wealth- 2 mill euro Region- the Netherlands Digital Academic Repositories (in the Netherlands)

2. The Essential DARE Goal –Use Institutional Repositories as building blocks for a national infrastructure for electronic publishing Strategy = be an INITIATIVE DARE is not a National Rescue Team Help libraries to join force Small central staff Break-session –the provoked, the inspired, the lost ones will present themselves and DARE to meet you

3. DARE Short term Plans Functional Specs for IR –Including (some) metadata agreements and long term preservation Set up SERVICES for and with researchers –Copyright –Quality Control –Support for Scientific Communication –…. Community Management ….