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Date: 30 Jun 2004 08:13:27 -0000
From: Subbiah Gunasekaran
To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: Yahoo! links to research resources
Apologies for cross postings
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Yahoo! links to research resources
Electronic research materials such as technical reports and preprints are
now available through Yahoo! Search. This follows a deal between the
OAIster Project, which was set up by the University of Michigan, US, and
Yahoo!'s Content Acquisition Program (CAP).
OAIster offers information that links to hidden digital resources, such as
the complete contents of books and articles, technical reports, preprints,
white papers, images of paintings, movies, and audio files of speeches.
OAIster retrieves these by tapping directly into the collections of a
variety of institutions using harvesting technology based on the Open
Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
The OAIster service currently provides access to three million harvested
records describing and pointing to these resources, which are created and
hosted by 267 research institutions around the world.
The deal with Yahoo! opens up these resources to a wider audience, because
many of the scholarly collections included in OAIster were not previously
indexed in popular Web search services.
Collections available through OAIster include: the arXiv.org Eprint
Archive (an archive of physics research); Carnegie Mellon University
Informedia Public Domain Video Archive; Ethnologue: Languages of the
World; Library of Congress American Memory Project; and Caltech Earthquake
Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports.
http://www.researchinformation.info/news.html#jun10
Thanks
S.Gunasekaran
