About OAIster

OAIster currently provides access to 22,009,018 records from 1139 contributors.

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
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Using OAIster

OAIster can be searched by Title, Author/Creator, Subject, Language or Entire Record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text, image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency. Results allow further limiting by data contributor (i.e., where the record was harvested from).
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News & Updates

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Last update: 17 June 2009
Next update: pending (early July)

New data contributors harvested:

• BBF: Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France
• Cartolis: Conservatoire Régional de la Carte Postale
• EMD: Euskal Memoria Digitala
• Globalarkivet
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Repository
• OPUS 12 Scientist
• RevEl@Nice: Revues Électroniques de l'Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
• Unitn-eprints.PhD