OAIster
Contributors: University of Michigan. Digital Library Production Service.
Publisher: University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Ann Arbor, MI]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Scholarly Web sites -- Directories.; Computer network resources -- Directories.
Genres: Directories.
Description: "OAIster serves as a search portal for digital collections of electronic books, online journals, audio and image files, and movies provided by the research library community. Users can search by keyword, title, creator, subject or resource type, and searches yield a detailed and well-organized description of the resource and a link to the resource itself. Indexed content includes the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, various pre-print and e-print servers, and digital thesis and dissertation collections. Currently OAIster contains over a 1.7 million records harvested from over 200 institutions. OAIster increases the visibility and accessibility of these unique resources by providing a 'broad, generic, information retrieval resource for information about publicly available digital library resources' via a single point of entry"--"Best Free Reference Web Sites 2003," RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2003; reviewed March 5, 2003.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on Oct. 21, 2003; last updated Oct. 1, 2003).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.