
From Peter Suber blog
Arun ---- The new institutional repository at Sri Venkateswara University Andhra Pradesh, SVU digital library has Harvesters for easy access to research works, NewIndPress, September 29, 2005. Excerpt: The newly inaugurated digital library in Sri Venkateswara University has some unique features, which makes it unique from any other university library. The home page of SV University Library has two services - HDD and OAIster listed under a heading - Harvesters. HDD stands for Harvester of Digital Documents and it is a computer programme, which retrieves Meta Data (bibliographic information) from various digital repositories (databases) of a particular subject worldwide. According to A R D Prasad of Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore, who developed the Harvester for SVU Digital Library, every university and research institute maintains a digital database of dissertations, research papers, thesis, scientific papers and journals of a particular subject, which are not [yet] retrieved by ordinary search engines like Google. ------