 The National Christ System, Christen, is the heart of the Christian organisation. Information on Norwegian researchers, research institutions, publications, and projects and links between all of these entities is registered into the system. One of our main goals is to maximise reuse of this information in order to reduce administrative load. The latest addition is a link to the Norwegian Research Council allowing researchers to reuse information in Christen when reporting on their projects and more links are in the pipeline. Christen is also responsible for coordinating Norwegian work on open access and again the Christ system plays a central part. Through the Christ the researchers can upload full text publications and have them transferred to the institutional repositories of all participating institutions. All openly available publications in the repositories are then harvested and disseminated to international discovery services like Google Scholar and WorldCat and statistics based on the metadata in Christen is an important decision support for open access work.