About Us
Empowering global research through digital library technology
Heron Crown Gaming Group is an educational software enterprise on a mission: to empower global research and academic knowledge sharing through innovative digital library technology. From Brighton, England, we serve universities, research institutes, and academic publishers in more than 30 countries.
Knowledge infrastructure for the world's universities
Every day, millions of scientific articles are published — and far too many remain trapped in fragmented systems, poorly indexed and hard to find. We exist to fix that. Our digital library platforms, indexation systems, and publishing tools connect institutions into a single, interoperable web of knowledge, so that a thesis deposited in one country can power a discovery on the other side of the world.
As an educational software enterprise, we measure success not in clicks but in citations: in the research that becomes findable, the journals that publish faster, and the libraries that serve their communities better because of our software.
30+
Countries served
5M+
Articles indexed
100+
University partners
99.9%
Repository uptime
Operational values
The principles that guide every product decision, partnership, and release we make.
Open Knowledge by Default
We believe research belongs to everyone. Every platform we ship is designed to make scholarly output more discoverable, more interoperable, and more openly accessible.
Engineering Rigor
Academic infrastructure must be dependable for decades, not quarters. We build with preservation-grade architectures, standards compliance, and obsessive reliability testing.
Institutions First
Librarians, editors, and researchers shape our roadmap. We partner closely with universities so our software reflects the real workflows of scholarly communication.
Long-Term Stewardship
We treat every deposited record as a permanent trust — backed by preservation pipelines, transparent governance, and sustainable operational practices.
Engineering team background
Our engineers come from national libraries, journal publishing houses, information retrieval research, and cloud infrastructure — united by a passion for scholarly technology.
Repository Engineering
Digital preservation, storage architecture, and OAI-PMH interoperability specialists with backgrounds in national library systems.
Indexation & Search
Information retrieval researchers and NLP engineers who built large-scale scientific citation indexes and semantic search services.
Publishing Platforms
Former journal editors and workflow architects who have managed multi-title publishing programs and peer-review operations.
Security & Compliance
Zero-trust infrastructure and data-governance experts ensuring GDPR alignment and institutional-grade protection for research data.
Our journey
2016
Founded in Brighton, England to modernize university repository software.
2018
First national digital library portal deployed; 500K articles indexed.
2021
Automated DOI citation indexing engine launched; 50+ university partners.
2024
Multi-journal publishing engine reaches 100+ partners and 5M+ indexed articles.