Open science

Your data stays yours.

Open formats, full export, and no lock-in by design — so your research record is never trapped, at renewal or beyond.

The fastest way to lose leverage over your own research record is to let it live in a format only one vendor can read. Stellacris is designed so that never happens: open formats, open identifiers, and a full export you can run yourself, any time.

Because the data model uses standard SQL types and follows CERIF, your record is portable at the structural level, not just as a flat dump. If you ever move — to another system, to on-premises, or to a new supplier — you take a clean, connected record with you.

Why it matters

Your record, never trapped

Full export, any time

Export everything in open, standard formats whenever you want it — a complete, self-service export you control.

Open standards

A CERIF-aligned model and open identifiers keep your information portable across systems.

No lock-in

Your data stays under your control, so renewal is a choice, not a hostage negotiation.

Yours on-premises, too

Run the identical system on your own servers if your policy requires data to stay at home.

In practice

Export, standards, and no lock-in

The concrete guarantees that keep your data yours: what you can export, in which formats, and how the model stays portable across systems.

  • Full self-service export of the entire record, on demand.
  • Open, standard formats — no proprietary container required to read your data.
  • A CERIF-aligned model with standard SQL types, portable across databases.
  • Persistent identifiers preserved on export, so relationships survive the move.
  • Export stays available at renewal, entirely in your control.
  • The same system available on-premises if you want the data physically in-house.
Common questions

Questions, answered

What exactly can we export?

Everything: projects, outputs, people, organisational units, funders, and the relationships between them, with identifiers intact. It is a structured, connected export, not a lossy PDF or a partial CSV.

How do we get our data out?

Export is a standard, self-service capability, available any time in open formats. Your data is yours, and retrieving it stays entirely in your hands.

What happens to our data if we leave?

You export a complete, standards-based copy and it is yours to take. Because the model is portable and identifier-based, the record remains usable in another system rather than becoming an inert archive.

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