The internal web page development platform has been spun out of Harvard University and will be marketed to other higher education bodies.

Harvard University has spun out its internal web page development platform called OpenScholar with the aim of marketing services to other higher education institutions.

Much of the OpenScholar development team will leave the university to be employed by a new company with the same name. Specifics on the business’s funding were not disclosed.

OpenScholar launched from the Harvard Web Publishing department in 2010 after development at the university’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

The open-source service facilitates website development with Harvard-specific…