# PASS Welcome Guide Welcome to the Public Access Submission System (PASS) documentation! The Public Access Submission System (PASS) is an Eclipse open source platform designed to assist researchers, IT staff, compliance officers, and executives in efficiently and economically complying with the access policies of their funders and institutions. Use Eclipse PASS to submit your manuscripts to funder and institutional publication repositories (e.g. PubMed Central, DSpace) and comply with access policies. Using the web-based PASS system, you can avoid paying article processing charges to make your publication open to the public, simultaneously send your manuscript to multiple repositories seamlessly, populate forms automatically with publication and author information by providing DOIs and ORCID IDs. In this guide we step through various topics on PASS: * Research submissions overview * Problems Researchers face when submitting to different repositories * How PASS is solving submission challenges for researchers * PASS at JHU * PASS demonstrations at Conferences * Technology stack * Deployment architecture * Latest release * Setup and run PASS * Collaboration with other institutions * Contributing to PASS --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.eclipse-pass.org/welcome-guide.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.