Professional Reading Shelf
Engineering–Databases
Federated Search
Metasearch
Source: PerX
New: Pilot Subject-Based Cross-Repository Search Tool Now Available
Via an e-mail. Word of a new, “pilot service http://www.engineering.ac.uk providing subject resource discovery across a variety of digital repositories of interest to the engineering learning and research communities has been released by the PerX Project. Although the target repositories included in the Pilot are relevant to engineering, the cross-searching methods and interface used, plus the range of repository types included, should be of interest to many as a demonstrator of one method of resource discovery across multiple digital repositories. Twenty-eight repositories are currently cross-searched by the Pilot. These include: the Directory of Open Access Journals (engineering and technology sections), DSpace at MIT, the Energy Citations Database, the GROW Digital Library, NASA Technical Reports, Jorum, ePrints UK, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS), Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW), CISTI – Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports, and several more established repositories of interest to the engineering community. More repositories will be added to the Pilot as they are identified and configured.”
See Also: Source Listing
See Also: Learn More About the PerX (Pilot Repoistory Xsearch) Project
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Scholarly Publishing–Podcast
Open Access
Source: EDUCAUSE
Interviews with SPARC’s Heather Joseph and CNI’s Cliff Lynch
These interviews took place at the recent CNI Spring Task Force Meeting that we blogged about last week.
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Digital Archives–Webcast
Source: LC
Archive Ingest and Handling Test
“Keith Johnson, digital repository product manager at Stanford University, reported on Stanford’s contribution to the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT), an initiative sponsored by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program designed to test the feasibility of transferring digital archives from one institution to another. He was joined by Library program officer Martha Anderson, who provided an overview to the project.”

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