The Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) programme is a joint initiative of all Dutch universities and some scientific organizations to store all results of scientific research digitally, and provide access to them by means of a network. Within the various institutions, this happens in a similar way with each institution being responsible for and administering its own records. This material can subsequently be made accessible in various ways and in various forms; traditionally via journals or books; online by the homepages of universities and electronic journals but now also by a single internet address: the DAREnet. In this issue an overview about the build up and operation of this network is presented.