News & Updates

12 Dec 2007	UM has developed an OAI toolkit for both data providers and harvesters.
12 Dec 2007	Using this toolkit, we data provide (and then harvest) from our MBooks collection, materials digitized by Google in partnership with UM.
2 Sep 2007	OAIster can now be searched using search plug-ins from your browser.
18 Jul 2007	Our publication "Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata", further describing work done in our OAI test portal, has been published in D-Lib Magazine.
20 Jun 2007	Our publication "Subject Metadata Enrichment using Statistical Topic Models", describing work done in our OAI test portal, has been published in the JCDL '07 proceedings.
19-24 Apr 2007	We presented at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5) in Geneva, Switzerland and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Spring Forum in Pasadena, CA.
21 Mar 2007	OAIster has been included as a resource at SciDev.net and as an SRU feed in Sente.
21 Mar 2007	Our most common complaint is about searching speed. We have been and will continue to work on this with server upgrades and tests of indexing software. In the meantime, we apologize for delays in retrieval.
22 Feb 2007	Character encoding issues should be resolved.
22 Feb 2007	Intermittent network problems are causing some searches to fail. We are investigating and diagnosing these problems.
24 Jan 2007	OAIster has just added its 10 millionth record! (Press release.) And we have a new design! Many pages have been modified, so please explore. Take our survey [now closed] and let us know what you think.
24 Jan 2007	Character encoding problems in the search results should be resolved by the end of February. A complete re-harvest of all contributors will also be done in February.
23 Jan 2007	Kat Hagedorn was part of a videoconference hosted by the Mediasite User Group at Central Michigan University. CMU_Hagedorn.ppt Link to archived videoconference [login required]
15 Dec 2006	The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Portal, based on the OAIster design, prototypes clustered subject searching. Choose a broad topic and/or sub-topic to limit your search to.
10 Nov 2006	Kat Hagedorn presented at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum in Boston. http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2006/presentations/seaman1106.pdf
7 Nov 2006	OAIster is included in Current Web Contents at Thomson Scientific.
23 Feb 2006	We have SRU-enabled OAIster so that it can be included in federated search engines. SearchTools at the University of Michigan Libraries is an example of a federated search engine. Choose the "General Interest" category to see OAIster's inclusion.
12 Dec 2005	If you use Firefox, you can add OAIster as a search engine plugin in your browser toolbar.
15 Mar 2005	Kat Hagedorn is named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. See the full text of the article.