About OAIster

OAIster currently provides access to 18,138,668 records from 1023 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: 5 Oct 2008
Next update: 8 Oct 2008

New data contributors harvested:

• B-Salut Repository
• NCCU (National Chengchi University) Institutional Repository
• Oecologia Brasiliensis
• OpenSIUC
• Scholar Works at GVSU