FYI. Index of various subjects and topics like Library Science (4100 articles), Life Science (35,000 articles), Mathematics (150,000 articles), Medicine (15,000 articles), Theses (182,000), Journals (1500 Open Access), Articles (57,000), EBooks (1200) etc. is available. All these can be searched separately as well as with a single Master Index. Just do a search and see the various functionalities and options it offers. From: emorgan@nd.edu Date: August 24, 2005 08:12:23 EDT [Please excuse the cross-posting.] Thanks to the GREAT work of Xiaorong Xiang (a Ph.D student here at Notre Dame in Computer Science), we have all but finished the development work on MyLibrary@Ockham. See: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/ MyLibrary@Ockham uses MyLibrary to collect, organize, and cache more than 430,000 records harvested from various scholarly OAI archives. The system then uses reports written against the database to find things like all the items classified as articles or all the items classified as medicine. These reports are sent to an indexer (Plucene), and finally an SRU interface was created allowing people to search the index. The SRU interface sports a number of cool features including: * lists of suggested alternative spellings with ASPELL * lists of possible synonyms using WordNet * lists of statistically created keyword The point of all this work is three-fold: 1) to demonstrate how digital library collections and services can be easily implemented using standard protocols and open source software 2) to address the perennial problem of "finding more like this one" 3) to demonstrate how the library profession can collect, organize, archive, and disseminate scholarly content if it is published using open access publishing techniques For more information about the system as well as to see how the content is organized, see: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/?cmd=about http://mylibrary.ockham.org/?cmd=facets Fun! -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal@yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/