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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:42:50 +0100
From: Kat Hagedorn <khage@umich.edu>
Reply-To: EPrints Underground List <eprints-underground@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: [EP-underground] OAIster Search Interface Launch
Resent-Subject: [EP-underground] OAIster Search Interface Launch

[Apologies for cross-posting.]

The University of Michigan Libraries Digital Library Production Service
is pleased to announce the launch of the OAIster search interface,
version 1.

        http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple

OAIster has harvested a large number of records from a variety of
institutions -- 274046 records from 55 institutions -- that have made
these records available using the OAI protocol (see
http://www.openarchives.org/). Each of these records leads to an actual
digital resource hosted at an institution.

You can learn more about a particular institution's collection we are
harvesting at http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/viewcolls.html. We are also
committed to improving our service -- see our future plans and the
progress we are making at http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/phase2.html.

We are very interested in gathering more records, OAI-enabled or
snapshots of records that aren't yet OAI-enabled, to include in our
service. The more records we serve, the more valuable this service
becomes for the end-user. Please get in touch with me at khage@umich.edu
to discuss this further.

Regards,
Kat

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Kat Hagedorn
OAIster Librarian
Digital Library Production Service
University of Michigan

http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/
khage@umich.edu
734-615-7618