About OAIster

OAIster currently provides access to 18,530,232 records from 1039 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: 19 Nov 2008
Next update: 25 Nov 2008

New data contributors harvested:

• Arias Montano: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
• SURE: Shizuoka University REpository
• Tropicos
• Wayne State University Digital Projects