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What have we achieved with your financial support

It's valuable to reflect on how far we've come over the past few years, thanks to the ongoing financial contributions of our global community of supporters. Your contributions have been greatly appreciated, enabling significant change in the infrastructure and continuous maintenance of the underlying datasets.

Sherpa Services becomes open policy finder

Re-engineering our services into a fresh, future-ready platform has required significant additional resources, including developer capacity and user experience designers. The combined expertise of this new team has resulted in a successful collaboration, propelling our services forward into the future.

How has your support helped?

Thanks to your support, we have transitioned from legacy software to a more secure, accessible, feature-rich, and modern user interface. However, the work doesn't end there. We are now better equipped to respond to the future needs of our community and emerging sector requirements.

Book policies

We launched our pilot interface for book policies in January 2024. Since then, we have been busy collecting feedback from our users, refining the data model and interface, and collecting more policies to augment the initial launch set.

How has your support helped?

We have increased the editorial team capacity to be able to operate this additional service for our users, who have been long awaiting the launch of such a consolidated book policy set.

Data accuracy

Data accuracy is, and always will be, our passion at open policy finder. Our dedicated editorial team has been diligently answering service desk queries from users and publishers, while continuously building and curating the data that underpins our website.

How has your support helped?

Thanks to your contributions, we have remained financially stable, enabling our editorial team to focus on their core task of continuous data management in an ever-changing policy environment.

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