<div dir="ltr">Launched in 2014, the Digital Ecologies Research Partnership (DERP) is a joint initiative by an alliance of community websites to promote open, publicly accessible, and ethical academic inquiry into the vibrant social dynamics of the web.<br>
<br>DERP seeks to solve two problems in the academic research space:<div><br><a href="http://derp.institute/">http://derp.institute/</a></div></div>