The Information and Communication Portal Edumeres.net is a virtual network for international educational media research. Alongside classical access to information, publcation, and research, it provides a user-orientated virtual research environment (VRE) with its own repository and community based communication tools. A connected Sharepoint-Server makes it possible to set up work groups with specific individually defined rights for the collaborative generation and discussion of new research issues, which can be published as quotable open access documents on a local Dspace-Server.