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[BOAI] New National Federated Rarvesting and Discovery Service

From: Peter Suber <peters AT earlham.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:02:42 -0400

[Forwarding from Waterford Institute of Technology. --Peter Suber.] Dear Colleagues, To celebrate open access week 2009, (See: http://www.openaccessweek.org/ ), We at WIT Libraries have launched a federated harvesting and discovery service called ResearchScope. It is a national portal designed to raise the profile of Open Access research in Ireland. See video presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUOTfMdXiAQ It works by harvesting information from research repositories, which present their records in an agreed standard called OAI-DC. By pulling this information together in to one index and re-presenting them via ResearchScope as well as the original home repositories, the information is made more visible to web search engines. It is worth noting that ResearchScope itself presents the aggregated data in this way and it can therefore be indexed itself by other services. ResearchScope is powered by a piece of open source software called Harvester, produced by the Public Knowledge Project, a Canadian group based in Simon Frasier University. (See: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ ) With minor modifications to the layout and the addition of a graphical 'word cloud' search, ( See: http://www.quintura.com/ ), we have produced an appealing and useful single point of access to open access research in Ireland. The widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results is steadily gaining momentum and ResearchSchope is also an attempt to broaden awareness/understanding of Open Access to research, on the part of research funders, the Irish higher education community and the general public Visit: http://researchscope.net/ Regards, -- David Kane Systems Librarian Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland http://library.wit.ie/ T: ++353.51302838 M: ++353.876693212

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