• World Bank is first major international organization to require open access to much of its research outputs under Creative Commons licensing.
• Many articles, reports and research papers in new repository can be shared and reused freely.
• Open Knowledge Repository content will be optimized for search engines and text mining tools.

Two years after opening its vast storehouse of data to the public, the World Bank is consolidating more than 2,000 books, articles, reports and research papers in a search-engine friendly Open Knowledge Repository, and allowing the public to distribute, reuse and build upon much of its work—including commercially.