27 January, 2007

Find a Pearl in OAIster!

Posted by Max on 27 January, 2007 in Academic Libraries, Digital Libraries

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. It harvests records using OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocal for Metadata Harvesting) which is not the same as the Open Access movement. This is part of what is known as the “deep web” - resources that are not traditionally found in standard web search tools [...]