Friday, July 10, 2009

DL-Harvest from University of Arizona: Open Access Library and Information Science Papers

Greetings from western Michigan, where I'm eating sour cherries and hanging out with my family on a much-needed summer vacation. Today's resource is the DL-Harvest open access search engine from dLIST at the University of Arizona. DL-Harvest searches the OAI-PMH compliant records of various institutional repositories that collect library and information science papers, including CalTech Library System Papers and Digital Library of the Commons at University of Indiana. DL-Harvest has indexed over 36,000 papers from 14 different repositories so far.

DL-Harvest provides access through a quick search, an advanced search, and a means to browse papers by repository.

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