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.

CiteSeerX Beta

Today's reference site is CiteSeerX, a scientific (primarily computer and information science) digital library and search engine from Penn State University. In addition to over one million articles in its database of articles, CiteSeerX provides a suite of discovery tools to assist researchers in finding the most relevant literature, including citation rankings and impact ratings.

Advanced search provides a variety of search fields and sorting criteria. Results can be sorted by number of citations, recency, relevance and date order.

CiteSeerX provides a number of search and discovery features beyond just indexed content: autonomous citation indexing, reference linking, citation context, related content and query-sensistive summaries are only some of the advantages of the CiteSeerX interface.

Go to town, searchers.